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Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
Francisco Goya1819
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This portrait both testifies to Goya’s friendship with Cuervo and presents the sitter as a cutting-edge intellectual. Director of the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the official academy for artists and architects in Spain, Cuervo appears with his plan for the recent renovation of Madrid’s Church of Santiago. The jacket with red and gold brocade identifies him as a member of the academy.
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- Title: Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
- Creator: Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)
- Date Created: 1819
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 136.8 x 105.1 x 7.3 cm (53 7/8 x 41 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 120 x 87 cm (47 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Francisco Durán y Sirvent, Madrid (1900); (Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900, 1928); Godfrey Rockefeller, Greenwich, Conn. (1939); (J. Seligmann, New York)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.90
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: "Dn. Juan Anto°. / Cuerbo / Direct[r] de la R[i] Academia a Sn./ Fern.[ando] / Por su amigo Goya/ año 1819"
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Spain, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1943.90
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