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Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol  1804

by Francisco de Goya

This is one of Goya's liveliest male portraits. The sitter's relaxed stance reflects the painter's intimate response to a friend, a young liberal whose disheveled hair and garb in the mode of revolutionary France speaks not only of his affinity for contemporary French fashion, but also of his sympathy for current French politics. [br] Goya's life spanned a period of polit...
Size: 
119.7 x 79.3 cm (47 1/8 x 31 1/4 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington