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Portrait of a lady
(c. 1810)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 84.2 × 70.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Spain
- Accession Number
- 1963-3
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
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
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This unsigned portrait of an unidentified Spanish noblewoman was acquired by the NGV in 1926 as a work of the renowned Spanish master Francisco de Goya. By the 1960s the attribution to Goya was questioned, based on an analysis of brushwork. Recent scholarship and research is working towards codifying works by Goya's contemporaries. Current thinking is that this portrait is indeed by Marino Salvador Maella an artist who trained in Madrid and Rome who was appointed painter to the Spanish Court in 1774, around the same time that Goya also received this honour.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- dresses (garments) jewellery noblewomen seated figures shawls three-quarter views women (female humans)