THE WIFE OF CEÁN BERMÚDEZ
Subtitle Manuela Camas y de las Heras Artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Fuendetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828
Date ca. 1785
Object type painting Medium, technique oil on canvas Dimensions 121 x 84.5 cm
with frame: 152 × 116 × 8.5 cm Inventory number 3792
Collection Old Master Paintings
On view Museum of Fine Arts, Second Floor, European Art 1700-1850, Gallery XXVIII
Goya, who covered an enormous distance from the acceptance of Rococo conventions to the attaining of the inner independence of the modern artist, painted this portrait of his friend’s wife in the first half of the 1790s. The
husband, Ceán Bermúdez, exerted significant academic work: his encyclopedia, published in 1800, is still an indispensable manual of Spanish history of art. The intelligent smile and warm glance of Se?ora Bermúdez arouse in the viewer the same affection, which the painter harboured for his sitter. Goya depicts the dress decorated with ribbons and tulle ruffles, and the red velvet needlework box casting a reflex on her hands with a fresh painterly style which remind us of Manet’s works painted decades later.
Vilmos Tátrai
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