Vicente López y Portaña, 1825 - Portrait of Juan Miguel de Grijalba - fine art print

Original artwork information from Indianapolis Museum of Art (© - by Indianapolis Museum of Art - www.discovernewfields.org)

Gallery label: A native of Valencia, Vicente López was called to Madrid in 1814 by Fernando VII, newly restored to the Spanish throne after six years of Napoleonic rule. Soon afterward, he was appointed First Painter to the King, in effect replacing Goya as the preferred portraitist at court and marking a shift in taste toward a more classicizing style. In this work, López portrays a courtier he must have known well. Juan Miguel de Grijalba, the learned favorite of Fernando VII, wears the dress uniform of the king's Secretary and grasps a bundle of letters emblematic of his office.

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In 1825 the male Spanish artist Vicente López y Portaña created the modern art artpiece. The original was painted with the absolute size: 40-1/2 x 31 in and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. The piece of art can be viewed in in the Indianapolis Museum of Art's collection in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. With courtesy of Indianapolis Museum of Art (licensed - public domain).Additionally, the work of art has the following creditline: . Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The painter Vicente López y Portaña was an artist, whose art style was mainly Romanticism. The artist lived for 78 years, born in the year 1772 and died in 1850.

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