María Tomasa Palafox, Marquise Of Villafranca
Don (honorific), Doña María Tomasa Palafox y Portocarrero, Marquise of Villafranca and Duchess of Medina-Sidonia, Medina Sidonia (1780–1835), was a patron and muse of the painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes and the wife of Francisco de Borja Álvarez de Toledo, 12th Marquis of Villafranca. In his famous painting, Goya portrays the Marchioness de Villafranca as an artist with brush and maulstick in her hand. She has interrupted her work at the easel and leaning back in her chair, armchair, she is scrutinising her model, her husband—invisible to the viewer—who is posing for his portrait. He must have been seated facing sideways with his profile to the artist, unable to turn the attention to his wife until the picture was done. Goya honoured his aristocratic "colleague" with the inscription of her name on the Palette (painting), palette; he himself signed his work with his signature on the arm of the chair. The marchioness, who is fashionably dressed in the Empire (style) ...
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Tomasa Palafox By Rivero
Tomasa is a Spanish female name. It may refer to: Art & media *Tomasa Diego, lead character in ''Noh Matta Wat!'' *''Tomasa Tequiero'', Venezuelan soap opera *"La negra Tomasa", also known as "Bilongo", famous guaracha by Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe People *Roxana Tomasa Díaz Sánchez (b. 1981), Cuban athlete *Tomasa Manalo, wife of Christian sect leader Felix Manalo *María Tomasa Palafox, Marquise of Villafranca (b. 1780), Spanish aristocrat *Tomasa Vives (b. 1959), Mexican politician See also

*Tomás (given name), masculine form of Tomasa *Thomas (name) {{given name Spanish feminine given names ...
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