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Sabasa Garcia

Garcia Pérez de Castro, Maria

Spanish, born 1790

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Shown from the waist up in front of a black background, a young woman with pale white skin and curly brown hair looks directly out at us over her shoulder with her body angled to our left in this vertical portrait. She has dark brown eyes, a straight nose, smooth skin, and her pink lips are closed. Curls fall across her forehead but the rest of her hair is pulled up under a white lace scarf, called a mantilla. The mantilla is tucked under the wide orange and black shawl wrapped around her shoulders. She clasps her hands at her waist, and her hands and forearms are covered with long white gloves that disappear under the shawl.
Francisco Goya, Señora Sabasa Garcia, c. 1806/1811, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.88

Señora Sabasa Garcia

Francisco Goya · c. 1806/1811 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.88

Bibliography

1983

  • Valverde Madrid, J. "El Retrato de doña Sebasa García por Goya." Goya no. 177 (1983): 108-109

1990

  • Brown, 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: 10