Francisco De Goya - The Countess Of Chichon

A young woman of unmistakable aristocratic bearing occupies the canvas with quiet authority, her pale gown luminous against a muted, atmospheric ground — the compositional restraint and psychological penetration characteristic of Goya's celebrated portrait work fully present here. The subject's gaze carries that quality of inward life that made Francisco de Goya y Lucientes the preeminent court portraitist of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain, an artist whose ability to render both the grandeur and the vulnerability of his sitters set him apart from any contemporary. The original Portrait of the Countess of Chinchón (1800) is held in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and is considered one of the artist's supreme achievements in conveying tenderness within a formal commission. This work, executed after that masterpiece, brings one of the great images of European portraiture into an intimate scale well suited to a refined private interior or a thoughtfully assembled collection of Old Master subjects.

Details

• Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 30 in

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