id: 123490 accession number: 1943.90 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.90 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:07.069000 Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo, 1819. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1943.90 title: Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1819 creation date earliest: 1819 creation date latest: 1819 current location: 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed lower left: "Dn. Juan Anto°. / Cuerbo / Direct[r] de la R[i] Academia a Sn./ Fern.[ando] / Por su amigo Goya/ año 1819" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Goya and His Times opening date: 1963-12-05T05:00:00 Goya and His Times. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (December 5, 1963-February 29, 1964). title: Goya opening date: 1970-07-04T04:00:00 Goya. Mauritshuis, Den Hague, Netherlands (July 4-September 13, 1970); Orangerie des Tuileries (September 25-December 7, 1970). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Goya Retrospective opening date: 1994-10-06T04:00:00 Goya Retrospective. Nationalmuseum (organizer) (October 6, 1994-January 8, 1995). title: Goya 1746-1828 opening date: 1996-03-29T05:00:00 Goya 1746-1828. Museo Nacional del Prado (organizer) (March 29-May 30, 1996). title: Goya: Order and Disorder opening date: 2014-10-12T00:00:00 Goya: Order and Disorder. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (October 12, 2014-January 19, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Francisco Durán y Sirvent, Madrid (1900); (Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900, 1928); Godfrey Rockefeller, Greenwich, Conn. (1939); (J. Seligmann, New York) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n53 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 490 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n90 Holland, Vyvyan Beresford. Goya, a Pictorial Biography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 166 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n190 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 166 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n190 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 152 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n172 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 484-486; Reproduced: p. 485 url: May, Sally Ruth. Knockouts: a pocket guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 45, p. 46 url: Roglán, Mark A. Spanish Art in America .[Madrid, Spain]: Ediciones El Vis 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 81 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.90/1943.90_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.90/1943.90_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.90/1943.90_full.tif