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- Reference number
- P00740
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Tadea Arias de Enríquez
- Chronology
- Ca. 1789
- Technique
- Óleo
- Support
- Lienzo
- Measures
- 191 cm x 106 cm
- School
- Española
- Theme
- Retrato
- On display
- Yes
- Procedence
- Tadea Arias, Madrid, ha. 1790; en 1793, en Vélez Málaga. Por herencia a Juan Nepomuceno Enríquez Arias, hijo de la retratada, Vélez Málaga, 1855. Por herencia, a sus sobrinos (nietos de Tadea), Gabriel y Luisa Enríquez y Valdés, Madrid 1876. Legado por ésta última al Museo del Prado 1896, ingresando el mismo año.
A full-length portrait of Tadea Arias de Enríquez (1770-1855), wearing a tulle dress with a black ribbon. The background is a landscape. The artist chose to represent the model stretching the glove on her right arm, along with the coats of arms of the Arias and León families. The latter belonged to her husband, Captain Tomás de León (d. 1793). This work may well be a commemoration of their wedding, which took place in 1790.
The composition of this work directly follows models from English portraits of that period, depicting the model in a garden as a way of bringing out her beauty.
