19th century
Artworks 1 to 10 of 30:
Trunk
- Medium
- Chip carved wood and iron
- Dimensions
- Height: 24 1/2 in (62.2 cm); width: 64 in (162.6 cm); depth: 19 in (48.3 cm)
- Credits
- San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Peter P. Cecere, 2006.1.98. Image courtesy of the San Antonio Museum of Art; photo by Alayna Barrett Fox
- Location
- San Antonio Museum of Art
Portrait of a Woman
by Anonymous / Unknown, circa 1800
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 14 15/16 x 11 1/8 in (38 x 28.2 cm)
- Credits
- Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
- Location
- Walters Art Museum
Portrait of the Marquesa de Santiago
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1804
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 209.9 × 126.7 cm (82 5/8 × 49 7/8 in.) Framed: 235.3 × 150.2 × 9.5 cm (92 5/8 × 59 1/8 × 3 3/4 in)
- Notes
The Marquesa de Santiago strikes a commanding presence, confronting the viewer directly with her hand assertively on her hip. She stands in front of a landscape of gently sloping hills dotted with cottages made up of rough, tan brushstrokes. Her sheer white lace mantilla veil extends to her knees and she holds a closed fan in her left hand, both traditional accessories of Spanish women in the 1700s and 1800s. The Marquesa was known to wear bold makeup, enough that her acquaintances wrote about it, and here, heavily applied rouge, powder, and lipstick accentuate her features. While other portraitists of this time often flattered or idealized their sitters, Francisco Goya frankly captured the Marquesa’s appearance and confident personality.
The Marquesa, María de la Soledad Rodríguez de los Ríos Tauche, grew up the only child of a well-connected family in Madrid, eventually inheriting the three noble titles of her parents and the wealth that came with those. Married first in 1783 when she was eighteen, then again in 1790 after she was widowed, María was the one who brought greater wealth and status to her husbands. She had estates in Flanders and Spain, two million reales in capital (the Spanish currency used from the 1300s to 1860s), and two million more in silver, jewelry, and other possessions. This portrait, though painted as a pair to her second husband’s, unconventionally touts her own title, Santiago, in the inscription in the lower right, rather than his, San Adrían, which would have been typical for her to adopt as his wife. As the more elite of the couple, she may have decided to commission these portraits from Goya to add to her family’s substantial paintings collection.
- Location
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Doña Francisca Vicenta Chollet y Caballero
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1806
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 40 1/2 in x 31 7/8 in
- Credits
- Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Location
- Norton Simon Museum
General Nicolas Philippe Guye
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1810
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 41 3/4 x 33 3/8 in (106.05 x 84.77 cm); framed: 52 1/4 x 43 3/4 in (132.72 x 111.13 cm)
- Credits
- © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Travis Fullerton
- Location
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
One can't look (No se puede mirar), from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra)
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1810–1814
- Medium
- Etching
- Location
- John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Disparate pobre (Poor Folly)
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1815–1823
- Medium
- Aquatint and etching, with retouching in drypoint and burin
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8-1/2 x 12-5/8 in.; sheet: 12-1/4 x 17-3/16 in.; mat: 16 x 20 in.
- Credits
- Gift of David and Marcia Hilton. © Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — University of Oregon
- Notes
Published in 1864. Plate #11 from Los Proverbios (The Follies)
- Location
- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Seated Giant
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, circa 1818
- Medium
- Burnished aquatint, scaper, roulette, lavis (along the top of the landscape and within the landscape)
- Dimensions
- Plate: 11 3/16 × 8 3/16 in (28.4 × 20.8 cm); Framed: 21 3/4 × 19 in (55.2 × 48.3 cm)
- Credits
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935.
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1819
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 136.8 x 105.1 x 7.3 cm (53 7/8 x 41 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 120 x 87 cm (47 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Modo de Volar (A Way of Flying) from Los Proverbios series
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1820
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 in (21.59 x 32.385 cm); Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 3/8 in (33.9725 x 49.2125 cm)
- Location
- Allentown Art Museum