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Self-portrait. Goya is regarded as a remarkable portrait painter with the rare ability to move beyond physical appearances to capture the essence of a sitter. During his long career he produced a number of self-portraits of which, this is one of the most powerful. Goya looks directly at the viewer with mesmerizing intensity.
Self-Portrait. 1815. Oil on canvas. Room 066. Goya deliberately presents himself here as vulnerable and fragile, revealing the most serene and welcoming facet of his personality. A dark background painted with rapid, energetic crossing brushstrokes adds presence to his reddish-brown frock coat, which contrasts with his very white, open-necked ...
Self-portrait at an Easel or Self-portrait in the Studio is a 1790-1795 cabinet-format portrait by Francisco de Goya, now in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. [1] This self-portrait, in addition to its simply resplendent beauty, is a clear and articulate commentary on the Romantic artist. [2]
Room 036. This Self-Portrait ’s small size indicates that it was intended for private and intimate use, as a gift to someone of interest to Goya. It came from the heirs of Tomás de Berganza, a butler to the Duke and Duchess of Alba who continued in the Duchess’s service after the Duke’s death. This provenance fueled a mid-19th-century ...
This vigorous portrait, stippled and lined in brown ink, is likely one of Goya’s most faithful self-studies. The artist was probably middle-aged when he made the drawing, but his dashing appearance, complete with tricorne hat, belies his years. It shows Goya before a grave illness of 1793 that would compromise his vitality.
The image has been said to embody observation as a "model of artistic endeavor," in contrast with imagination, the subject of a second self-portrait in the Caprichos, hanging nearby. After transferring the preparatory red chalk drawing to the copperplate (1972.118.295), Goya made various corrections before applying aquatint in two layers to ...
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Description. The first self-portrait that is known of the artist, it was painted in ca. 1775 shortly after his arrival in Madrid after being summoned by Mengs to work as a cartoonist at the Royal Tapestry Factory. He was inspired by a self-portrait by Mengs painted in ca. 1773. Goya was twenty-nine years old and would have painted it to assert ...
