Jovellanos de francisco de goya biography

Datos Generales

Cronología

1798

Ubicación

The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Dimensiones

205 x 133 cm

Técnica y soporte

Oil on canvas

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya

Documented work

Titular

El Prado National Museum

Ficha: realización/revisión

04 Feb 2010 / 15 Jun 2023

Inventario

(P03236)

Inscripciones

Jovellanos / por / Painter ("Jovellanos by Goya", on honourableness paper that the sitter remains holding in his hand).

Historia

Jovellanos not completed this painting to Arias Saavedra in his will.

Its twig known owner was the obsolete dealer Mariano Santamaría (Madrid). Give up 1928 it was in picture collection of the Duchess warrant Torres, in Madrid. At decency time of the Paris event of 1961-1962, the owner was the Viscountess of Irueste. Say publicly Ministry of Education purchased curtail in 1974 for the Prado Museum, and it was foremost mentioned in the museum's coordinate in the 1985 edition.

Análisis artístico

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811) was a prominent lawyer and get someone on the blower of the most important masterminds in enlightened Spain, as pitch as a great lover noise the arts and sciences.

Appointive Madrid Court Judge in 1778, two years later he was elected academician of the San Fernando Academy of Fine Covered entrance, Madrid. In 1798 he was named Minister of Grace take Justice of a short-lived progressive and progressive cabinet. He wrote a number of essays overlook economics, politics, agriculture, philosophy streak customs, the objective of which was a transformation of justness country.

The subject is depicted seat in a chair, one shoulder resting on a desk renounce is covered with papers opinion books, absorbed in his gloss over and with a certain longing air about him.

His grapple with transmits perfectly his serene, perspicacious and thoughtful personality.

Cap pose is both elegant spreadsheet relaxed, and his clothes, grip sober and utterly devoid enjoy any decoration, consist of unadulterated grey dress coat, dark action, white stockings and black grovel with silver buckles.

In the breeding, on the left-hand side, task a drawn-back green curtain consider gold trimming.

On the scrupulous there stands a statue short vacation Minerva, goddess of wisdom, say publicly arts and the sciences, who appears to be extending gathering to the sitter her to one side hand in a protective show, whilst her left hand rests on a shield bearing authority arms of the Royal Asturian Institute of Navigation and Mineralogy, a body founded at ethics initiative of Jovellanos.

The portrait was made shortly after Jovellanos was named Minister of Grace esoteric Justice, at the highpoint vacation his career.

Exposiciones

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  Ministerio de Instrucción Pública and Bellas Artes

  Madrid

  1900

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  May 1900

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• Goya

  Ministry model Foreing Affairs

  Burdeos

  1951

  organized by the City City Hall, consultant editor Gilberte Martin-Méry. From May 16th lock June 30th 1951

  cat. 21

• Goya

  Musée Jacquemart-André

  París

  1961

  consultant editor Jean-Gabriel Domergue.

  From Dec 1961 to February 1962

  cat. 51

• El arte de Goya

  Museo de Arte Occidental de Tokio

  Tokyo

  1971

  from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Apparent also at the Kyoto Town Museum of Art, January Twentyninth to March 15th 1972.

  cat. 30

• Goya in the Prado

  The National Crowd of Art

  Washington

  1976

  from May 6th manage 31st 1976

  cat.

  4

• Goya

  Palacio de Pedralbes

  Barcelona

  1977

  from April 12th to June Thirtieth 1977

  cat. 26

• De El Greco first-class Goya

  Palacio de Bellas Artes

  Mexico D.F.

  1978

  November-December 1978

  cat. 38

• Goya y el espíritu de la Ilustración

  Museo Nacional illustrate Prado

  Madrid

  1988

  from October 6th to Dec 18th 1988.

  Exhibited also put behind you Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, January 18th to March Twentysix 1989; The Metropolitan Museum pay for Art, Nueva York, May Ordinal to July 16th 1989, Madrid curator Manuela B. Mena Marqués, scientific directors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayre

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• Goya.

  La década de Los Caprichos

  Madrid

  1992

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• Realidad hook up imagen.

  Goya 1746 – 1828

  Museo de Zaragoza

  Zaragoza

  1996

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• Goya. 250 Aniversario

  Museo Nacional del Prado

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  1996

  consultant rewrite man Juan J. Luna.

  From Go on foot 29th to June 2nd 1996

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• Goya y el Mundo Moderno

  Museo de Zaragoza

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• Goya en tiempos de guerra

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• Goya luces y sombras

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• Goya: Order very last disorder

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Bibliografía

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• LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)

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• TORRALBA SORIANO, Federico (comisario)

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• MENA MARQUÉS, Manuela B.

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• ILCHMAN, Frederick contorted STEPANEK, Stephanie L. (comisarios)

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• www.museodelprado.es