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Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon

Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon

c. 1776
(German, 1728–1779)
Germany, 18th century
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.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1966.14
Location: 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture

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.
  • 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.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. Reproduced: p. 39; Mentioned p. 44, 62
    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. Reproduced: p. 216 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 152 archive.org
    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. Mentioned: p. 486-489; Reproduced: p. 487
    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. Mentioned: p. 237-239; Reproduced: p. 106, 237-238
    Salomon, Xavier F. "Goya and the Altamira Family." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 71, no. 4 (Spring 2014). p. 18; Reproduced: fig. 17
    Gade, Regina. "De mi invención"?: Francisco de Goya im Dienst der spanischen Monarchie von 1775 bis 1792. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015. Reproduced: p. 845, fig. 5.25
  • Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries. Indianapolis Museum of Art (organizer) (November 23, 1996-January 19, 1997).
    Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).
    Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, 1961/62: "Goya"cat. no. 21.
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon|url=false|author=Anton Raphael Mengs|year=c. 1776|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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