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Portrait of Manuel Gaviria y Alcoba, Count of Buena Esperanza, later Marquess of Casa Gaviria

Year 1840

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 129 x 96 cm

About the artwork

Portrait of Manuel Gaviria y Alcoba, Count of Buena Esperanza, later Marquess of Casa Gaviria is an artwork by VICENTE LÓPEZ PORTAÑA, dated 1840. The work is executed in Oil on canvas. Its recorded dimensions are 129 x 96 cm. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.

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Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by the sitter, Manuel de Gaviria y Alcoba, II Marquess of Casa Gaviria and I Count of Buena Esperanza (1794 – 1855), from 1851 hung in the Palacio de Gaviria, Madrid;

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. 39;

Díez, J.L., Vicente López (1772-1850) Catálogo Razonado, Madrid 1999, p. 144, P-584, lám. 249;

Díez, J.L., Vicente López (1772-1850) Vida y Obra, Madrid 1999, p. 339, P-584;

Gaya Nuño, J.A., Arte del siglo XIX. Ars Hispaniae XIX, Madrid 1966, p. 107;