Portrait of Don Ramón Satué

• Portrait of Don Ramón Satué
• Don Ramón Satué (1765-1824). Alcalde de Corte (Judge of the Fifth Chamber of the Council of Castile in La Corte)
• Portrait of Don Ramón Satué y Allué (1765-1824)

Don Ramón Satué (1765-1824). Alcalde de Corte (Judge of the Fifth Chamber of the Council of Castile in La Corte)

SK-A-2963

signature, date and inscription, lower left: ‘D. Ramon Satue / Alcalde d corte / Pr Goya 1823’

Goya owes his fame to his portraits of the Spanish court and to his idiosyncratic prints. He had already turned 76 when he painted this powerful portrait. Satué was a judge in the highest tribunal of Castile. The casual pose and open collar have an informality that Goya usually reserved for portraits of his most intimate friends.

Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt, jrg. 15, nr. 1 (voorjaar 2005), p. 29-31

painter: Francisco de Goya

1823

olieverf op doek

• height 107 cm x width 83.5 cm
• height 135.5 cm x width 112 cm x depth 7 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1922

Public domain

? Presented by the artist to the sitter, Don Ramón Satué y Allué (1765-1824), Madrid, 1823; transferred to Satué´s native home, Fanlo, near Huesca, presumably as the property of his brother, Pedro Satué, January 1825;{The portrait was sent by the sitter´s executor and cousin, José Duaso y Latre; letter from José Duaso to Pedro Satué, 8 January 1825. Transcribed in M. García Guatas, `Nuevos datos sobre dos aragoneses retratados por Goya´, _Goya: Revista de arte_ 42 (1996), no. 252, pp. 326-30, esp. p. 330: `El retrato del difunto está para ser embiado a su casa nativa, siendo ésta una de las cosas que me confió.´}...; ? collection Marquis of Heredia, Madrid;{Heredia´s ownership is first signalled in X. Desparmet Fitz-Gerald, _L´oeuvre peint de Goya: catalogue raisonné_, 4 vols., Paris 1928-50, II, p. 225, no. 514, and is repeated in all subsequent literature, but there seems to be no evidence for it. It is almost certainly a confusion with no. 4 in the catalogue for the sale, Benito Garriga, Paris (Bloche, Haro, Escribe), 24 March 1890: `Portrait de la maîtresse de Goya´, there said to be from the `Ancienne collection du marquis de Heridia´. That is the painting now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, inv. no. 177: 1963.4.2 (for which see P. Gassier and J. Wilson, _Goya: His Life and Work: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Drawings and Engravings_, London 1971, no. 835), which was listed as in the collection of Narciso Heredia y Begines de los Ríos, 1st Marquis of Heredia, in C. Yriarte, _Goya: Sa biographie, les fresques, les toiles, les tapisseries, les eaux-fortes et le catalogue de l´oeuvre_, Paris 1867, p. 138.}…; collection Benito Garriga, Madrid, by 1887;{C. Muñoz y Manzano Viñaza, _Goya: Su tiempo, su vida, sus obras_, Madrid 1887, p. 165, no. CXXVII. The Garriga collection is erroneously placed in Barcelona in L. Amaudry, `The Collection of Dr. Carvallo at Paris, II: Spanish and Other Later Pictures´, _The Burlington Magazine_ 6 (1904), pp. 179-87, esp. p. 185.} his sale, Paris (Escribe and Haro), 24 March 1890, no. 3, fr. 1,500;...; sale, Paris (Lair-Dubreuil and Haro), 27 May 1902 _sqq._, no. 21, fr. 9,500, to Dr Joachim Carvallo (1869-1936), Château de Villandry, near Tours; by whom to Duveen Brothers, London and New York, 1919;{E. Fowles, _Memories of Duveen Brothers_, London 1976, pp. 111-12.} from whom purchased by the museum, with SK-A-2964,{Jacopo Tintoretto, _Portrait of a Man with a Red Cloak_.} fl. 65,000, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1922{According to E. Fowles, _Memories of Duveen Brothers_, London 1976, p. 112, the price for the Goya was $ 20,000.}

• Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt, jrg. 15, nr. 1 (voorjaar 2005), p. 29-31
• E.R. Meyer, Openbaar Kunstbezit IV, nr. 15 (1960)
• A. de Beruete y Moret, Goya, 1928, p. 84, pl. 33
• G. Luijten, ''De veelheid en de eelheid' : een Rijksmuseum Schmidt-Degener', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 352-353, afb. 2.
• Kunstschrift, nr. 6 (1986), p. 192, 193, afb. 9
• D. Bull en A. Krekeler et al., 'An intrusive portrait by Goya', in Burlington Magazine sept.-okt. 2011
• V. Bloch, Goya in Paris, Pantheon (1962), p. 179, afb. 3
• Antiek, jrg. 5,nr. 2 (1970), p. 84, 86
• Peter Hecht, 'Een collectie verrijkt : Bijzondere gasten in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 20 (2010) nr. 3, p. 6 (afb.).
• A.L. Mayer, Gesch. der Span. Malerei, 1922, cat.nr. 484
• R.L. Delevoy, 1954, Pl. 62
• A.L. Mayer, Einige Bemerk. zur Gesch. der Entw. des Malers Goya, Zeitschrift für Bild. Kunst (1922), p. 68
• P. Hecht, Kunstschrift, nr. 3 (1996), p. 43
• I. Montijn, Juwelen van zwerfkeien, Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt, nr. 2 (2000), p. 26-28
• Sánchez Cantón, Goya, (1954), p. 130
• J. Guidol, Francisco Goya, Arte Illustrata IV (1971), p. 7
• L. Amandry, The Collection of Dr. Carvallo at Paris II, The Burlington Magazine VI (1904/05), p. 185
• R. Oertel, F. de Goya, 1907, p. 140
• A. Erftemeijer, Een Eeuw in Beeld, Kunstbeeld, 15e jrg. , nr. 3 (maart 1991), p. 15

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