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Summary

Francisco Goya: Portrait of a Woman   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Artist
Imitator of
Francisco Goya  (1746–1828)  wikidata:Q5432 q:en:Francisco Goya
 
Francisco Goya
Alternative names
Francisco Goya Lucientes, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José Goya Lucientes
Description Spanish- painter, printmaker, lithographer, etcher, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 30 March 1746 Edit this at Wikidata 16 April 1828 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Fuendetodos Edit this at Wikidata Bordeaux Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5432
Title
Portrait of a Woman
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date Base painting, 1790s. Over painting, unknown, but thought to be from the late 19th century.
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 62.2 cm (24.5 in); width: 48.2 cm (19 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,62.23U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,48.26U174728
institution QS:P195,Q809600
Object history 1943: Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Notes

This portrait of Maria Isabella de Bourbon, infanta of Spain (1741-1763), thought to be painted by Goya was bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum in 1943. Although the canvas was old, and the paint bore the crackle marks of age, several scholars came to doubt the painting’s authenticity.

In 1954, X-ray images were taken of the painting and conservators were surprised to find an earlier portrait of a different woman beneath the surface. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed the presence of zinc white paint, which was invented after Goya's death. Thorough cleaning of the painting confirmed that the surface paint was relatively modern and had been applied so as not to obscure the craquelure of the original. Curators also discovered extensive damage to the base portrait; leading some to speculate that the forger attempted to scrape off the earlier face.

Upon completing the analysis, the conservators left the work as you see it above (with portions of the original painting visable, on the left, and the newer forgery on the right), to illustrate the intricacies of art forgery, and the inherent difficulty of detecting it.

(It is thought that the base painting is a provincial Spanish work dating to the 1790s). [1]
Source/Photographer [2]

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