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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 ...
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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The Family of Carlos IV. 1800. Oil on canvas. Room 032. 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.
Dec 30, 2022 · Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya who began work on this painting in 1800 and completed it in the summer of 1801. It features life sized depictions of Charles IV of Spain and his family, ostentatiously dressed in fine costume and jewelry.
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)
Oct 14, 2023 · In 1801, Goya painted ‘Charles IV of Spain and His Family’. The oil on canvas painting depicts Charles IV of Spain and various members of his family. Each member of the royal family is dressed in colourful and elaborate costumes and jewelry. The setting for the gathering is an artist’s studio with a shadowy Goya standing in the left-hand ...
A few months later, however, Goya was made first court painter. Later he was apparently threatened by the Inquisition, and in 1803 he presented the plates of Los caprichos to the king in return for a pension for his son. The Family of Charles IV, oil on canvas by Francisco Goya, 1800; in the Prado, Madrid.
