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Museo del Prado, Madrid. Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil-on-canvas group portrait painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. He began work on the painting in 1800, shortly after he became First Chamber Painter to the royal family, and completed it in the summer of 1801. The portrait features life-sized depictions of Charles IV ...
Image archive. Request artworks available in our catalogue in digital format. This portrait of the family of King Carlos IV (1748-1819) was painted in Aranjuez and Madrid in the spring and summer of 1800, shortly after Goya was named First Chamber Painter. It clearly show´s the artist´s mastery at individualizing characters.
The Family of Charles IV, 1800 by Francisco Goya "The King says that as soon as Goya is done with your wife's portrait he is to come here and do one of all of us together," wrote Queen Maria Luisa in a letter dated 22 April 1800 and sent from Aranjuez to Manuel Godoy, whose wife, the future countess of Chinchon, Goya was painting at the time.1 And indeed, the newly appointed first painter to ...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV. Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV. by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV, c. 1800, Prado Museum, 280 cm x 336 cm (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
Dec 30, 2022 · Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Charles IV of Spain and his family’ was created in 1800 by Francisco Goya in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
It's the The Family of Charles IV. There's a direct reference to Velázquez's Las Meninas. We can see the artist actually, a self-portrait, a bit more in shadow than Velázquez painted himself, behind a large canvas, pretty much at the same angle as one found in Las Meninas and of course, the royal family are right before us.
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Portrait of. King Charles IV. 1790. Oil on canvas. On display elsewhere. Upon the death of Charles III, Goya was asked to paint portraits of the new monarchs, Charles Bourbon IV and his wife, María Luisa of Parma. As a recently named Royal Painter, the artist was responsible for supplying portraits of the Royal Family; aided by several ...
