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image of The Marquesa de Pontejos
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
On View
From the Tour: Francisco de Goya
Object 2 of 9
1867Yriarte, Charles. Goya, sa biographie et le catalogue de l'oeuvre. Paris, 1867: 139.
1887Viñaza, Conde de la (Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano). Goya: su tiempo, su vida, sus obras. Madrid, 1887: 271, no. 158.
1901Benusan, Samuel Levy. "A Note upon the Paintings of Francisco José Goya." The Studio 24 (1901): 156, repro. 158.
1902Benusan, Samuel Levy. "Goya: His Times and Portraits." The Connoisseur 4 (1902): 123.
1907Oertel, Richard. Francisco de Goya. Leipzig, 1907: 86, fig. 61.
1908Calvert, Albert F. Goya: An Account of His Life and Works. London, 1908: 139, no. 215, pl. 88.
1910Lafond, Paul. Goya. Paris, 1910: 6, pl. 43.
1914Stokes, Hugh. Francisco Goya. London, 1914: 168, 338, no. 251.
1915Beruete y Moret, Aureliano de. Goya, pintor de retratos. Madrid, 1915: 39, 173, no. 94, pl. 9 (Also English ed. Translated by Selwyn Brinton. London, 1922: 47-48, 207, no. 101, pl. 9).
1921Loga, Valerian von. Francisco de Goya. Munich, 1921: 58-59, 70, 199, no. 388, fig. 64.
1924Colección de cuatrocientos y nueve reproducciones de cuadros, dibujos, y aquafuertes de Don Francisco de Goya precididas de un epistolario del gran pintor y noticias biográficas por Don Francisco Zapatar. Madrid, 1860: no.5.
1928Constable, William George. "The Goya Exhibition at Madrid." The Burlington Magazine 52 (1928): 307.
1928Desparmet Fitz-Gerald, Xavier. L'oeuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols. Paris, 1928-50: 2:49, no. 330; vol. 1 of plates: pl. 257.
1930Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier. Goya. Paris, 1930: 37, 70, 96-97, pl. 15.
1937Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 43.
1937Frankfurt, Alfred. "The Mellon Gift to the Nation." Art News 35 (January, 1937): 13.
1941Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. "The Eighteenth Century in the National Gallery: Italian, English, French, and Spanish Masters." Art News 40 (June, 1941): 39, repro. 20.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 88-89, pl. VII.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 241, repro. 211.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 128, color repro.
1945Cook 1945, 151-153, fig 2.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 50, repro.
1951Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier. Vida y obras de Goya. Madrid, 1951: 35-36, 38, 153-154, pl. 17. Translated by Paul Burns, Madrid, 1964.
1955Gassier, Pierre. Goya. Paris, 1955: 32, 96.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 34, color repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 90
1958Gaya Nuño, "La pintura espanola" 1958, 159, no. 897, pl. 253.
1960Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 36, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20, color repro. 15.
1961Havemeyer, Louisine B. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector. New York, 1961: 167.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 232, repro.
1964Trapier, Elizabeth de Gué. Goya and His Sitters. New York, 1964: 4, 52, no. 5, figs. 5-6.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 60
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:342, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 52, repro.
1971Gassier, Pierre, and Juliet Wilson. Vie et oeuvre de Francisco Goya. Paris, 1970. Translated by C. Hauch and J. Wilson. New York, 1971: 30, 61-62, 78, no. 221, color repro. 62, repro. 94 (1981 ed.: same pp. as above).
1971Gudiol y Ricart, José. Goya: 1746-1828; Biography, Analytical Study and Catalogue of His Paintings. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. 4 vols. New York, 1971: 1: 76-77, 258, no. 266; 2: fig. 382, color fig. 383.
1973Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery in Washington. Washington, 1973: 21-22, repro. 20.
1974de Angelis, Rita. L'opera pittorica completa di Goya. Milan, 1974: 101, no. 185, color pl. 10.
1974Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors. Boston, 1974: 125, repro. 126.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 158, repro.
1979Descargues, Pierre. Goya. London, 1979: 77.
1979Baticle, Jeannine. "L'Art européen à la cour d'Espagne au XVIIIe siècle." RLouvre 29 (1979): 320, fig. 3.
1979Conisbee, Philip. "Art from Spain at the Grand Palais." The Burlington Magazine 121 (1979): 821.
1979Licht, Fred. Goya: The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art. New York, 1979: 144, 224-225, fig. 105.
1979Salas, Xavier de. Goya. Translated by G. T. Culverwell. London, 1979: 177, no. 156, color repro. 36.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 96, pl. 85, color repro.
1980López-Rey, José. "Chronique des arts: Espagne." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 115 (1980): 14.
1981Glendinning, Nigel. "Goya's Patrons." Apollo 114 (1981): 241.
1983Gállego, Julían. "Los retratos de Goya." Goya en las colecciones madrileñas. Exh. cat. Prado, Madrid, 1983: 55, fig. 24.
1984Camón Aznar, José. Francisco de Goya. 4 vols. Saragossa, 1984: 2:47-50, color repro. 29.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 398, no. 566, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 182, repro.
1990Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 5-9, color repro. 6.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 90, repro.
2001Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 26.

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