Portret van Joseph Alvarez de Toledo
Medium
etching
Dimensions
278; 407
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Portret van Joseph Alvarez Toledo** is a striking 1797 etching by Manuel Salvador Carmona, a prominent Spanish engraver from a renowned family of printmakers active in Madrid during the late Enlightenment. Measuring 407 × 278 mm, this captures the likeness of Joseph Alvarez de Toledo likely a figure of Spanish nobility or prominence, rendered with Carmona's signature precision. Carmona, trained in the neoclassical tradition, excelled in reproductive prints and original portraits, bridging the gap between painting and accessible print culture at a time when etching allowed for widespread diss...