Francisco de Goya, 1783 - Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga, later Countess - fine art print

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Although Goya is now best known for his innovative and incisive depictions of such themes as the excitement of the bullring and horrors of the Napoleonic wars, it was as a portraitist that he first gained fame among his countrymen. In 1783, Goya was called to Arenas de San Pedro by the Infante Don Luis, brother of Charles III, to paint a family portrait. He also painted individual portraits of family members such as this one.

Ingenuous but self-assured, the future countess wears the fashionable attire of a lady of the Spanish court as she poses at the edge of a terrace. She gazes out at the viewer with an innocence very much in contrast with her adult costume and mature stance. In the style of earlier "grand-manner" portraiture, Goya may have manipulated the setting to enhance the image of the diminutive sitter, perhaps adjusting the scale of the parapet to her size and placing the wall close to her.

This is one of four portraits by Goya of María Teresa, with whom he maintained a lifelong sympathetic relationship. One of the most tragic figures at the court of Charles IV, the countess was trapped in a humiliating marriage to the King's minister, Manuel Godoy, arranged by the Queen, Maria Luisa, for her own duplicitous purposes.

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Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga, later Countess was by Francisco de Goya. The original was painted with the absolute size - 134,5 x 117,5 cm (52 15/16 x 46 1/4 in) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Moveover, the work of art belongs to the collection of National Gallery of Art located in Washington D.C., United States of America. This classic art public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Besides this, the alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The engraver, painter, etcher, printmaker, lithographer Francisco de Goya was an artist from Spain, whose artistic style was primarily Romanticism. The Spanish artist was born in the year 1746 in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain and deceased at the age of 82 in 1828 in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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