Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo (1819): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo (1819) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This portrait both testifies to Goya’s friendship with Cuervo and presents the sitter as a cutting-edge intellectual. Director of the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the official academy for artists and architects in Spain, Cuervo appears with his plan for the recent renovation of Madrid’s Church of Santiago. The jacket with red and gold brocade identifies him as a member of the academy.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo
• Date: 1819
• Creator attribution: Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 136.8 x 105.1 x 7.3 cm (53 7/8 x 41 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 120 x 87 cm (47 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1943.90

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "A Portrait by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 6 (June 1943): 88-92
• Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
• A Loan Exhibition of Goya: For the Benefit of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, November 9-December 16, 1950 at Wildenstein ... New York. [New York]: Wildenstein, 1950.

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