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Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo

1819

Francisco de Goya

(Spanish, 1746–1828)

Spain, 19th century

Oil on canvas

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.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1943.90

Location

201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture

Description

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed lower left: "Dn. Juan Anto°. / Cuerbo / Direct[r] de la R[i] Academia a Sn./ Fern.[ando] / Por su amigo Goya/ año 1819"

Provenance
Francisco Durán y Sirvent, Madrid (1900); (Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900, 1928); Godfrey Rockefeller, Greenwich, Conn. (1939); (J. Seligmann, New York)
Citations
Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 45 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 490 archive.org
Holland, Vyvyan Beresford. Goya, a Pictorial Biography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Reproduced: p. 36
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 152 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 484-486; Reproduced: p. 485
May, Sally Ruth. Knockouts: a pocket guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: no. 45, p. 46
Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America .[Madrid, Spain]: Ediciones El Vis 2016. Reproduced: p. 81
Exhibition history

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).

Goya and His Times. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (December 5, 1963-February 29, 1964).

Goya. Mauritshuis, Den Hague, Netherlands (July 4-September 13, 1970); Orangerie des Tuileries (September 25-December 7, 1970).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

Goya Retrospective. Nationalmuseum (organizer) (October 6, 1994-January 8, 1995).

Goya 1746-1828. Museo Nacional del Prado (organizer) (March 29-May 30, 1996).

Goya: Order and Disorder. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (October 12, 2014-January 19, 2015).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.90