Charles IV of Spain as Huntsman, c. 1799/1800

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 46.6 x 30 cm (18 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1937.1.86

Artists / Makers

Spanish 18th Century (painter)

Francisco Goya (related artist) Spanish, 1746 - 1828

Image Use

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Provenance

Marquesa de Bermejillo del Ray, Madrid. (Trotti et Cie, Paris), who sold a half share to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[1] purchased 17 October 1928 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] Knoedler stockbook no. 8, p.51, M. Knoedler & Co. records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copy NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Bermejillo del Rey, Marquesa de
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Mellon, Andrew W.
Trotti et Cie

Exhibition History

1986: Goya: The Condesa de Chinchón and Other Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Spanish and American Private Collections and the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986-1987, unpaginated brochure.

Technical Summary

The original support consists of a medium-weight, plain-weave, single-threaded fabric, loosely woven, which has been lined. The tacking margins have been trimmed. The lowest ground is a thin red layer covered by a gray-brown imprimatura. The paint is applied as fluid pastes and transparent glazes with tiny impasto of medium height in the highlights. There is a pentimento in the hair: the curls to the right side of the face were once lower. The paint is rather badly abraded overall, and there are darkened dabs of inpainting. A darkened, grimy varnish gives the work a dull, flat look.

Bibliography

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 89, no. 86, as Carlos IV of Spain as Huntsman by Goya.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 241, repro. 214, as Carlos IV of Spain as Huntsman Goya.

1949: Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 48, repro., as Carlos IV of Spain as Huntsman by Goya.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 60, as Carlos IV of Spain as Huntsman by Goya.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 52, repro., as by Goya.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 158, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 401, no. 567, as Carlos IV as Huntsman, by Francisco de Goya.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 182, repro.

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: 33, 36-37, repro. 34.