Detail of Josefa de Castilla Portugal y van Asbrock de Garcini by Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2010

Josefa de Castilla Portugal y van Asbrock de Garcini (1775–about 1850)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

Date: 1804

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41 x 32 3/8 in. (104.1 x 82.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Harry Payne Bingham, 1955

Accession Number: 55.145.2

Description:

In this pendant to the portrait of her husband, Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (55.145.1), Doña Garcini is evidently pregnant, which may account for the informality of her hair and dress. Her Rubensian features and coloring, invariably noted by critics, have only recently been explained: Josefa's mother, whose name was Van Asbrock, was of Flemish descent.


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