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Currently, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their
paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”.
The 79th story is the “Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga” by Francisco
Goya.
“Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga” is a 1787-88 oil painting of the large full-length portrait by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The painting depicts a boy, standing in red clothes, with birds and cats. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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| Portrait of Goya, Vicente López Portaña (c. 1826) |
The painting was commissioned by Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán, the boy's father and conde de Altamira. He was one of the six dignitaries of the newly established Banco de San Carlos, painted by Goya between 1785 and 1788.
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| Portrait of Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán, Francisco Goya (1787) |
In 1786, Goya was nominated painter to Charles III, and
from 1789 he continued as a court painter of his successor, Charles IV.
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| Charles III of Spain, Anton Raphael Mengs (c. 1761) |
Conde de Altamira commissioned Goya for several family portraits, and
the painting depicts his youngest son, Manuel. Goya also painted a portrait of
his other son, Vicente Isabel Osorio de Moscoso y Álvarez de Toledo, and a
portrait of his wife María Ignacia Álvarez de Toledo y Gonzaga with their
daughter María Agustina.
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| Portrait of Vicente Isabel Osorio de Moscoso, Francisco Goya (1786–87) |
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| María Ignacia Álvarez de Toledo y Gonzaga and her daughter,Francisco Goya (1787–88) |
The pets in this portrait have been interpreted in many different ways,
one of which is the caged birds as innocent souls and the cats as evil forces.
An example of this is Goya's showing a cat amongst the various creatures in his
"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters", part of "The
Caprices".
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| The sleep of reason produces monsters, Los Caprichos, Francisco Goya (c. 1799) |
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