On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00722
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Josefa Bayeu
- Chronology
- Ca. 1814
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 82,5 cm x 58,2 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COMPRA
- Procedence
- Acquisition, 1866
Ever since this painting entered
the museum, the sitter has
traditionally been identified as
Josefa Bayeu, Goya's wife. However,
the date of the painting doesn't
coincide with the age of the
supposed model, as Josefa Bayeu
died in 1812 at the age of
sixty-five. Thus she would have
been fifty years old by 1798, which
is the date most historians
attribute to this work. The present
portrait, however, seems to depict
a women in her thirties, or even
younger.
Moreover, some details of the
clothing make it necessary to date
this portrait even later, around
1812 or 1814.
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