On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P03260
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Immaculate Conception
- Chronology
- 1783-1784
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 80 cm x 41 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COMPRA
- Procedence
- Acquisition, 1891
Here, Goya breaks with Baroque
tradition, interpreting this
typified subject according to the
new principles of Neoclassicism.
The clothing no longer flies around
the figure, but instead adapts to
the body in a natural manner.
This delightful and emotive work is
a preparatory sketch for the canvas
belonging to the main altarpiece of
the church of the College of the
Order of Calatrava in Salamanca. It
was commissioned along with two
other paintings by Gaspar Melchor
de Jovellanos in 1783. All of those
works disappeared during the War of
Independence (1808-1812). The only
witness to that important set of
paintings is the present sketch at
the Prado Museum, which belonged to
Jovellanos, himself.
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