The ''Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate'' is an 1810–1811 painting of the actress
Antonia Zárate by
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and ...
or his studio. It is now in the
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...
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and if it is an autograph work, it is the only painting by Goya in a Russian collection.
It seems to have been commissioned by the subject's son
Antonio Gil y Zárate in 1811 after her death and probably forms a reworking of Goya's
earlier larger 1805 portrait of her. It remained in Spain until 1900, when it was sold in
New York City
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. It passed through various dealers and owners before being acquired by the Knoedler Gallery for $60,000 from an heir of
Marshall Field, a department-store magnate in Chicago.
That gallery was owned by
Armand Hammer, who then used a Liechtenstein front to sell it to his own Armand Hammer Foundation for $160,000.
In 1972, Hammer donated it to the Hermitage,
claiming it was worth $1,000,000.
See also
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List of works by Francisco Goya
References
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1810 paintings
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Paintings in the collection of the Hermitage Museum