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Don Luis Jaime Antonio de Borbon y Farnesio, Infante of Spain
(c. 1774-1778)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 152.4 × 109.22 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Madrid, Spain; Rome, Italy
- Accession Number
- 2014.1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Harold and Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, 2014
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Mengs was an early exponent of neoclassicism who was drawn to Italy by the renewed interest in Rome’s classical past. From Rome he travelled south to Naples, where he painted for the ruling Spanish nobility. In 1761 he was enticed to Madrid where he was appointed Court Painter, a position he held for sixteen years. The sitter is the youngest son of King Felipe V of Spain and Isabella Farnese. In this refined neoclassical court portrait, he wears the blue ribbon of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Don Luis was a great patron of the arts and supporter of the painter Francisco de Goya and the Italian cellist Luigi Boccherini when the latter worked in Madrid.
- Subjects (general)
- Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- cuffs (costume components) Infante Don Luis Antonio de Borbón men (male humans) patrons (philanthropists) royalty (nobility) sashes (costume accessories) three-quarter-length figures
- Movements
- Neoclassicism