id: 142311 accession number: 1966.14 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.14 updated: 2022-09-22 10:06:38.221000 Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon, c. 1776. Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779). Oil on canvas; framed: 180.5 x 127 x 8 cm (71 1/16 x 50 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 152.7 x 100 cm (60 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1966.14 title: Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1776 creation date earliest: 1771 creation date latest: 1781 current location: 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - German before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 180.5 x 127 x 8 cm (71 1/16 x 50 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 152.7 x 100 cm (60 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries opening date: 1996-11-23T00:00:00 Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries. Indianapolis Museum of Art (organizer) (November 23, 1996-January 19, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, 1961/62: "Goya"cat. no. 21. --- PROVENANCE Maria Luisa, Duquesa de San Fernando, Madrid (youngest daughter of Don Luis, died 1847); Carlota Luisa, Duquesa de Sueca, Condesa da Chinchon, Boadilla del Monte (granddaughter of Don Luis, niece of Maria Luisa, died 1886); Adolfo Ruspoli, Duque de Sueca, Conde de Chinchon, Boadilla del Monte (son of Carlota Luisa, died, Paris, February 4, 1914; liquidation: Paris, February 7, 1914); Comte de Maubou, Paris; [Wildenstein & Co., New York]. Purchase, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Bequest, 1966. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: As a younger child of King Philip V of Spain, Don Luis received important religious posts, including Archbishop of Toledo and Seville. However, his philandering led to losing these titles and banishment from the court, while he became a crucial avant-garde art patron, especially of Goya. The encrustations of medals and cacophonous fabrics speak to Mengs's experiments in representing status, privilege, and royal honors in the age of Enlightenment, when rational skepticism began to confront absolutist, hereditary power. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1430 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Reproduced: p. 39; Mentioned p. 44, 62 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (1966): 181-284. page number: Reproduced: p. 216 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110 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. 486-489; Reproduced: p. 487 url: Kasl, Ronda and Suzanne L. Stratton. Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries. Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 237-239; Reproduced: p. 106, 237-238 url: Salomon, Xavier F. "Goya and the Altamira Family." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 71, no. 4 (Spring 2014). page number: p. 18; Reproduced: fig. 17 url: Gade, Regina. "De mi invención"?: Francisco de Goya im Dienst der spanischen Monarchie von 1775 bis 1792. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 845, fig. 5.25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.14/1966.14_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.14/1966.14_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.14/1966.14_full.tif