Thérèse Louise de Sureda

c. 1803/1804

Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a muted, sapphire-blue gown sits ramrod straight in a chair and looks at us in this vertical portrait painting. The chair and the woman’s body face our left in profile, but she turns her round face to look at us with large, light brown eyes. She has slightly flushed cheeks, a straight nose, a full lower lip, and her mouth is closed. Her left forearm, closer to us, rests on the front corner of the wooden arm of the chair. Her other hand lies across that forearm. Her blue dress has a high collar and wraps closed across her chest. The full skirt bunches around the back of the seat and around the arm of the chair. The corners of a white collar lie open at the woman’s throat, nestled into the dress's lapels. The dress is painted rather loosely with shades of slate and royal blue and shaded with mauve pink, giving it a hint of a sheen. The back and seat of the wood chair is upholstered in gold-colored fabric, which is also loosely painted with the suggestion of a brocade pattern. The background is dark brown, nearly black.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 52

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Pedro Escat, Palma de Mallorca.[1] Sureda family, Madrid and Seville;[2] (Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris); purchased 28 September 1897 by Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer [Henry Osborne Havemeyer, 1847-1907, and Louisine Waldron Elder, 1855-1929], New York;[3] by inheritance 1929 to their daughter, Mrs. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen [née Adaline Havemeyer, 1884-1963], Morristown, New Jersey; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Escat's ownership is first mentioned by Charles Yriarte, Goya, sa biographie et le catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris, 1867: 148, and subsequently is noted in Conde de la Viñaza, Goya, su tiempo, su vida, sus obras, Madrid, 1887: 263, n. 121.
[2] Janusz Gerij, a descendant of the Sureda family, wrote to the NGA that the family has photographs of both NGA 1941.10.1 and NGA 1942.3.1 that were taken about 1892 (letter of 13 May 1995, in NGA Department of Visual Services, copy in NGA curatorial files).
[3] Frances Weitzenhoffer, "The Creation of the Havemeyer Collection, 1875-1900," Ph.D. diss., The City University of New York, 1982: 265, cited in Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 222, 343 no. 292. Louisine E. Havemeyer, in Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector, New York, 1961: 136, recalls that "we bought...the pair of 'Sureda' portraits for less than fifty thousand [pesetas]." Mrs. Havemeyer inherited the collection after her husband's death in 1907.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1912

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by El Greco and Goya, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1912, no. 10.

1936

  • Francisco Goya, His Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1936, no. 9.

1986

  • Goya: The Condesa de Chinchon 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., 1986-87, unpaginated brochure.

1996

  • Goya 1746-1828, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1996, no. 123, repro.

2001

  • Goya: La imagen de la mujer [Goya: Images of Women], Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 71 (Spanish cat.), no. 33 (English cat.), color repro.

2015

  • Goya: The Portraits, National Gallery, London, 2015-2016, no. 42, repro.

Bibliography

1867

  • Yriarte, Charles. Goya, sa biographie et le catalogue de l'oeuvre. Paris, 1867: 148.

1887

  • Viñaza, Conde de la (Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano). Goya: su tiempo, su vida, sus obras. Madrid, 1887: 263, no. 121.

1902

  • Lafond, Paul. Goya. Paris, 1902: 138, no. 215.

1903

  • von Loga, Valerian. Francisco de Goya. Berlin, 1903: 204.

1908

  • Calvert, Albert. Goya: An Account of His Life and Works. London, 1908: 140, no. 238.

1916

  • Beruete y Moret, Aureliano de. Goya, pintor de retratos. Madrid, 1915: 179, no. 214. Translated by Selwyn Brinton. London, 1922.

1924

  • Mayer, August L. Francisco de Goya. Munich, 1923. Translated by Robert West [pseud.]. London, 1924: 166, no. 428.

1928

  • Desparmet Fitz-Gerald, Xavier. L'oeuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols. Paris, 1928-1950: 2:221, nos. 5, 10, pl. 424.

1931

  • H. O. Havemeyer Collection. Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art. Portland, Maine, 1931: 314, repro. 315.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 251, repro. 213, as Doña Teresa Sureda by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.

1945

  • Cook 1945, 156-160, fig. 6.

1956

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 34, repro., as Doña Teresa Sureda.

1961

  • Havemeyer, Louisine W. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector. New York, 1961: 136.

1963

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 234, repro., as Doña Teresa Sureda.

1964

  • Trapier, Elizabeth du Gué. Goya and His Sitters. New York, 1964: 31-33, Figs. 57-58.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 60, as Doña Teresa Sureda.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 52, repro., as Doña Teresa Sureda.

  • Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 14.

1970

  • Gassier, Pierre, and Juliet Wilson. Vie et oeuvre de Francisco Goya. Paris, 1970: 198, no. 814, repro. Translated by Christine Hauch and Juliet Wilson. New York, 1971: 198.

1971

  • Gudiol y Ricart, José. Goya: 1746-1828; Biography, Analytical Study and Catalogue of His Paintings. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. 4 vols. New York, 1971: 1:311, no. 534, fig. 840.

1974

  • De Angelis, Rita. L'opera pittorica completa di Goya. Milan, 1974: 119, no. 446, color pl. 31.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 158, repro., as Doña Teresa Sureda.

1979

  • Salas, Xavier de. Goya. Translated by G. T. Culverwell. London, 1979: 95, 102, no. 379, repro.

1984

  • Camón Aznar, José. Francisco de Goya. 4 vols. Saragossa, 1984: 3:159.

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 402, no. 572, color repro., as Doña Teresa Sureda.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 183, 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: 16, color repro. 17.

1993

  • Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, et al. Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993: 343, no. 292 [not in the exhibition].

2000

  • Bartolomé Sureda (1796-1851): Arte e industria en la ilustración tardía. Exh. cat. Museo Municipal de Madrid, 2000: 25, repro. [not included in the exhibition].

2004

  • Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 268-269, no. 218, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q17519493

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