The actor Isidoro Máiquez

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1807

Height:

72.0 cm  (28 3/8 in.)

Width:

59.0 cm  (23 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

From the Museo del Prado website: The son of actors, Isidoro Máiquez was born in Cartagena in 1768. Supported by the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, he studied in Paris with the celebrated thespian Francisco José Talma (1763-1826), introducing his teacher’s innovations onto the Spanish stage. He enjoyed immediate success with Shakespeare’s Othello in 1802 and became the director of the Teatro del Príncipe. The technique Goya uses here, thick brushstrokes with large amounts of paint, foreshadows the main characteristics of his final works. The composition, with the model completely in the foreground, emphasizes the actor´s resolution and mood. There is another version of this painting by Goya in the Art Institute of Chicago.

People as subjects

Máiquez, Isidoro (1768-1820)

Iconclass

48C8312
portrait of actor

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

4484