id: 124990 accession number: 1946.431 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.431 updated: 2022-01-07 22:46:28.314000 Portrait of Juan Maria Osorio, c. 1786. Agustín Esteve y Marques (Spanish, 1753–c. 1820). Oil on canvas; framed: 143.8 x 107.6 x 6.4 cm (56 5/8 x 42 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 120 x 84 cm (47 1/4 x 33 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1946.431 title: Portrait of Juan Maria Osorio title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1786 creation date earliest: 1781 creation date latest: 1791 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Spanish before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Agustín Esteve y Marques (Spanish, 1753–c. 1820) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 143.8 x 107.6 x 6.4 cm (56 5/8 x 42 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 120 x 84 cm (47 1/4 x 33 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed at bottom: "EL Sr. Dn. JUAN MARIA, OSORIO, ALVAREZ. D TOLEDO; NACIO EN 28 DAGOSTO, D 1780 Y FALLECIO, EN." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Goya and the Altamira Family opening date: 2014-04-22T00:00:00 Goya and the Altamira Family. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 22-August 3, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, April 8-June 3, 1951: "Opening Exhibition," (No catalogue).
Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of the Four Arts, January 11-February 3, 1952: "Spanish Painting Exhibition," cat. no. 16.
Chattanooga (Tennessee) Art Association, The George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art, May 1952: "First Loan Exhibition, Formal Opening," cat. p. 1.
Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, October 8-November 14, 1954: "Masterpieces of Spanish Paining," cat. no. 12.
Winnipeg (Manitoba) Art Gallery, April 16-may 15, 1955: "El Greco to Goya," cat. no. 19.
Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, October 23-November 27, 1955 " Paintings from Midwest Museums," cat. no. 13.
Syracuse (New York) Museum of Fine Arts, February 3-28, 1957: "Goya, Zurubarán, and Spanish Primitives-An Exhibition of Spanish Painings," cat. no. 35; Atlanta (Georgia) Art Association, Galleries, March 1957. Addenda for catalogue published, no. 33.
Indianapolis, Indiana, The Art Association, John Herron Museum of Art, February 10-March 24, 1963: "El Greco to Goya, A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," cat. no. 26, pl. 26; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, April 15-May 26, 1963.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (4/22/2014 - 8/3/2014): "Goya and the Altamira Family" --- PROVENANCE Possibly Don Vicente Osorio Moscoso Fernandez de Corboba, Count of Altamira and Astorga. date: footnotes: citations: by 1864 Altamira Family (Madrid, Spain) date: footnotes: citations: - 1931 date: footnotes: citations: Private collection (Paris, France), sold to Joseph Duveen, 1931 date: footnotes: citations: 1931-1946 Duveen Brothers (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1946. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: Esteve y Marques enjoyed a successful early career as a court painter and society portraitist, working as an assistant to the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya before becoming court painter to King Charles IV. The young subject of this portrait is Juan Maria Osorio, one of three sons of Don Vicente Osorio Moscoso Fernandez de Cordoba, the 13th count of Altamira, who also commissioned multiple family portraits from Goya. Esteve and Goya often shared aristocratic patrons, and there are also portraits of the count and his wife attributed to Esteve. The portrait of Juan Maria is somewhat static in execution, the subject lacking vigor and psychological intensity in Esteve's depiction. Yet some of the stiffness of the Cleveland portrait may be due to the fact that this work was probably a posthumous portrait of Juan Maria, who died in 1785 at the age of five. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Reproduced: p. 483; Mentioned: p. 482-484 url: Salomon, Xavier F. "Goya and the Altamira Family." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 71, no. 4 (Spring 2014). page number: 44 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.431/1946.431_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.431/1946.431_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.431/1946.431_full.tif