Octavia Bouchet

Ca. 1860. Oil on panel.
Not on display

Octavia Bouchet Ipschier (Bordeaux, circa 1828–Madrid, 1897), originally from France, married the magistrate and journalist Felipe Picón García. Their son Jacinto Octavio Picón Bouchet was a lawyer and writer. Their grandson Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas was an art critic and patron of the Museo de Arte Moderno. This is a bust-length portrait, in which the portrayed person is facing the front.

Both the modelling of the face and the impasto brushstrokes, as in the collar of the blouse, for example, are unusual in the painter´s technique, even in his moments of freest execution.

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Inventory number: P004475
Author: Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz
Title: Octavia Bouchet
Date: Ca. 1860
Technique: Oil
Support: Panel
Dimension: Height: 24 cm; Width: 17 cm
Provenance: Bequest of Jacinto Octavio Picón, 1923; Museo de Arte Moderno, 1923-1968; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 1968–1971
Entry date: 1971

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas del siglo XIX, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 1985, pp. 171-172.

Los Madrazo: una familia de artistas, Ayuntamiento, Concejalía de Cultura, Madrid, 1985, pp. 171 nº67.

Maurer, Gudrun, Goya: lo bello y lo recóndito, La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 441 nº261.

Mena Marqués, M.; Albarrán, V., La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, folleto, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 58.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado. Catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 368.