Portrait of Maria Teresa de Vallabriga on horseback

Francisco Goya

Contemporary-Art.org
Keywords: PortraitMariaTeresaVallabrigahorseback

Work Overview

Portrait of Maria Teresa de Vallabriga on horseback
Francisco Goya
Original Title: Retrato de María Teresa de Vallabriga a caballo
Date: 1783
Style: Romanticism
Genre: portrait
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 61.7 x 82.5 cm
Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy


In the summer of 1783 the Infante Don Luis de Borbón, brother of Charles III, invited Goya to stay at his residence of Arena de San Pedro, where the painter executed a series of portraits (possibly sixteen) of Don Luis's family. Goya mentions the equestrian portrait of María Teresa de Vallabriga, the wife of Don Luis, in a letter to his friend Martin Zapater on 2 July 1784.


Although the artist referred to a painting that was unfinished, the reference has been linked to this canvas of the Uffizi.


Evident in this work is Goya's revival and re-adaptation of the 17-century tradition of the equestrian portrait, particularly that of Velázquez.