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Francisco de Goya (artist) Spanish, 1746 - 1828 The Marquesa de Pontejos, c. 1786 oil on canvas Overall: 210.3 x 127 cm (82 13/16 x 50 in.) framed: 231.8 x 146.4 cm (91 1/4 x 57 5/8 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.85 |
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Provenance
The sitter [1762-1834]; her third husband, Joaquín Pérez Vizcaíno y Moles, Casa Pontejos, Madrid;[1] his son-in-law, Don Manuel de Pando y Fernández, Marqués de Miraflores, Casa Pontejos, by 1867;[2] Don Manuel's granddaughter, Genoveva de Sanmiego y Pando, Marquesa Viuda [widow] de Martorell and Marquesa de Miraflores y de Pontejos, Casa Pontejos, by 1900;[3] her son, Don Manuel Alvarez de Toledo, Marqués de Miraflores y de Pontejos, Casa Pontejos, by 1900;[4] sold July 1931 through Mrs. Walter H. [Anna] Schoellkopf, Madrid, and (M. Knoedler & Co., New York and Paris) to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington; deeded in December 1934 to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA 1937.
[1] Walter Cook, "Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Art II: Portraits by Goya," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 28 (1945): 152, note 2. On Vizcaíno's life and career and on his inheritance of his wife's estate, see Eduardo C. Puga, "El Marqués de Pontejos," La ilustración española y americana 39 (8 May 1895): 286-287. [2] Charles Yriate, Goya: sa biographie et le catalogue de l'oeuvre (Paris, 1867): 139. Basic biographical information about the members of the house of Pontejos is given by Alberto and Arturo García Carrafa, Diccionario heráldico y genealógico de apellidos españoles y americanos, vol. 71 (Madrid, 1956): 137-140; and by Juan Moreno de Guerra y Alonso, Guía de la grandeza (Madrid, 1917): 228-229. [3] Obras de Goya [exh. cat.], Ministerio de Instruccion Pública y Bellas Artes (Madrid, 1910): 32, no. 92. The painting was also recorded in her possession by S. L. Benusan, "A Note upon the Paintings of Francisco José Goya," The Studio 24 (1901): 156; Albert F. Calvert, Goya: an Account of his Life and Works (London, 1908): 193, no. 215; Paul Lafond, Goya (Paris, 1910): 6; Hugh Stokes, Francisco Goya (London, 1914): 338, no. 251; Aureliano de Beruete y Moret, Goya, pintor de retratos (Madrid, 1915): 39; Valerian von Loga, Francisco de Goya (Munich, 1923): 200, no. 307; Colección de cuatrocientos y nueve reproducciones de cuadros, dibujos, y aquafuertes de Don Francisco de Goya precididas de un epistolario del gran pintor y noticias biograficas por Don Francisco Zapatar (1860) (Madrid, 1924): no. 58. [4] Pinturas de... Goya [exh. cat.] (1928): 23, no. 18. 6. Lively accounts of the negotiations involved in this sale are given by David Edward Finley, A Standard of Excellence (Washington, 1973): 21-22; and John Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors (Boston, 1974): 125.
Associated Names
- Alvarez de Toledo, Manuel, Don
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Pando y Fernández, Manuel de, Don
- Pontejos y Sandoval, María Ana de, Doña
- Sanmiego y Pando, Genoveva de
- Schoellkopf, Walter H., Mrs.
- Vizcaíno y Moles, Joaquín Pérez
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