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- Title
Un Goya exótico: La osa hormiguera de Su Majestad.
- Authors
JAVIER, URRIES
- Abstract
In July 1776, a female giant anteater from Buenos Aires was presented to Charles III in the Palacio Real in Madrid. The King of Spain and the Indies ordered the transfer of the animal to the Buen Retiro and commissioned her portrait, which was painted under the direction of Anton Raphael Mengs, 'primer pintor de cámara'. In this paper, the painting, which is now in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, is attributed to Goya based on the stylistic similarities with the landscapes of his tapestry cartoons. In addition, the author also considers the possibility that Goya worked as Mengs's assistant in the ceiling fresco of the Apotheosis of Trajan at the Palacio Real, from November 1775 to June 1776.
- Subjects
SPAIN; GOYA, Francisco, 1746-1828; ATTRIBUTION of paintings; ANTEATERS in art; MENGS, Anton Raphael, 1728-1779; SPANISH painting; CHARLES III, King of Spain, 1716-1788; ROYAL art patronage; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Goya, 2011, Issue 336, p242
- ISSN
0017-2715
- Publication type
Article