Caballero de la familia Goyena (Gentleman of the Goyena Family)
Joaquin Jose Goyena y O'Daly
ca. 1835-1843
Medium
Painting-Miniature
Classification
Painting-Miniature
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
Accession Number
1996.91.13
Tags
waist length
About this artwork
This dashing young man wears a fashionable pin in his shirt, and is seated on a fancy chair with a painted or inlaid design. The piece is inscribed "J J Goyena Pinx"---"pinx," short for pinxit, means "painted" in Latin, and is often found on older European paintings.