Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (1752–1825), Brigadier of Engineers
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 x 32 3/4 in. (104.1 x 83.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry Payne Bingham, 1955
Accession Number
55.145.1
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...