On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P02603
- Author
- Madrazo y Garreta, Raimundo de (Spanish)
- Title
- Josefa Manzanedo e Intentas de Mitjans, Marchioness of Manzanedo
- Chronology
- 1875
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 227 cm x 127 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- LEGADO
- Procedence
- Legacy of the Marchioness of Manzanedo, 1927
Raimundo de Madrazo was the
portrait painter par excellence to
the wealthy Spanish colony living
in Paris in the final quarter of
the nineteenth century. This
full-length portrait is an example
of the affected perfection that
characterized this painter's female
portraiture. Such works generally
employed relevant settings such as
the floral tapestry that hangs
behind the elegant figure of the
Marchioness of Manzandedo. The
sumptuousness and rhetoric of this
portrait is also evident in the
carved wooden and bronze frame with
garlands that enter part of the
pictorial surface, making it an
exceptional part of this
portrait.
Born in Cuba in 1857, Josefa
Manzanedo belonged to one of the
wealthiest families of her time.
She lived in Paris and frequented
the colony of Spanish painters
there, maintaining economic and
sentimental ties with Madrid, where
she retired at the end of her life,
which ended in 1925.
The Prado Museum collection also
has another portrait of Josefa de
Manzanedo, made in 1872 by
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
(P2628).
This work was bequeathed to the
Prado Museum by the Marchioness
herself in 1927.
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