VICENTE LÓPEZ PORTAÑA (1772–1850)
Portrait of Antonia Alcoba Mateos, Marchioness of Casa Gaviria
About the artwork
Portrait of Antonia Alcoba Mateos, Marchioness of Casa Gaviria is an artwork by VICENTE LÓPEZ PORTAÑA, dated 1845. The work is executed in Oil on canvas. Its recorded dimensions are 128 x 97 cm. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.
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Provenance
Commissioned from the artist in 1845, together with the pendant portrait of her husband Manuel de Gaviria y Douza, I Marquess of Casa Gaviria (1772–1852), and, from 1851, hung in the Palacio de Gaviria, Madrid;
by descent to her son, Manuel de Gaviria y Alcoba, II Marquess of Casa Gaviria and I Count of Buena Esperanza (1794–1855);
by descent to his son, José de Gaviria y Gutiérrez, III Marquess of Casa Gaviria and II Count of Buena Esperanza (d. Havana, 1894);
José Bertrán y Musitú (1875–1957), Barcelona;
alienated from its owners during the Spanish Civil War;
Miguel Mateu Plá (1898–1972), Barcelona;
thence by descent, Mateu Plá Collection, still recorded there as late as 1980;
Restored to the Bertrán family by Mateu’s descendants;
thence by descent, Bertrán Collection, Barcelona, recorded there from 1985.
Literature
Aguilera, E.M., Vicente López, Madrid 1946, p. 21, lám. 38;
Díez García, J.L., Retratos privados en la pintura española del siglo XIX in Tesoros de las colecciones particulares madrileñas: Pinturas españolas del Romanticismo al Modernismo, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 1991, p. 55;
Díez García, J.L., Vicente López (1772-1850) Catálogo Razonado, Madrid 1999, p. 116, P-460, lám. 264;
Díez García, J.L., Vicente López (1772-1850) Vida y Obra, Madrid 1999, pp. 354 (illus.), and 366, P-460;
Lafuente Ferrari, E., Breve Historia de la Pintura Española, Madrid 1946, ed. 1953, p. 438;
Monreal y Tejada, L., Casa Bertrán en San Gervasio, Barcelona 1985, p. 88, p. 131, nº 40;
Morales y Marín, J.L., Vicente López, Zaragoza 1980, p. 102, nº 269;
Ossorio y Bernard, M., Galería biográfica de artistas españoles del Siglo XIX, Madrid 1883-4, p. 390.
Exhibitions / Fairs
Liceo Artístico y Literario, Madrid, June 1846;
Vicente López. Palacio de la Virreina, Barcelona, 1943 (nº 30).
Tesoros de las colecciones particulares madrileñas: pinturas españolas del romanticismo al modernismo, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, October - November 1991.
La Colección Bertran. La memoria de un legado familiar. Sala Can Rocamora. Museu de Maricel, Sitges, 23 June – 15 October 2023.
Exhibitions
- The Danger of Beauty
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