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Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed between 1800-1801. The work was modeled on Velázquez's Las Meninas when setting the royal subjects in a naturalistic, and plausible setting.
As in Las Meninas, the royal family in Goya's work are apparently paying a visit to the artist's studio, while the artist himself can be seen to the left looking outwards towards the viewer. In both the artists is shown working on a canvas, of which only the rear is visible. However, the atmospheric and warm perspective of the palace interior of Velázquez's work is replaced in the Goya by a sense of, in the words of Gassier, "imminent suffocation" as the royal family are presented by Goya on a "stage facing the public, while in the shadow of the wings the painter, with a grim smile, points and says: 'Look at them and judge for yourself!'"[1]
- ^ Gassier (1995), pp. 69–73.
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Blind Guitarist (1778) • Crucified Christ (1780) • Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga (1783) • Spring (or The Flower Girls) (1786–1787) • The Swing (1787) • St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent (1788) • Manuel Osorio de Zuniga (c. 1788) • Self-portrait (c. 1790–1795) • Little Giants (1791–1792) • Portrait of Mariana Waldstein (c. 1792) • Strolling Players (1793) • Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794) • Marquesa de la Solana (c. 1794–1795) • Duchess of Alba (1797) • Que se la llevaron! (1797–1798) • What a sacrifice! (1797–1798) • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797–1798) • They say yes and give their hand to the first comer (1797–1798) • You who cannot (1797–1798) • Countess of Chinchon (1800) • La maja desnuda • Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–1801) • La maja vestida • Bartolome Sureda y Miserol (c. 1803–1804) • Isabel de Porcel (1804–1805) • Doña Teresa Sureda (c. 1805) • The Colossus (1808–1812) • Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812) • Contra el bien general (c. 1810) • Time (c. 1810–1812) • Prison Interior (c. 1810–1814) • This is worse (c. 1812–1813) • The Second of May 1808 • The Third of May 1808 (1814) • May the rope break! (c. 1815) • Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejon (1815–1816) • Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816 ) • Inquisition Scene (c. 1816) • The Procession (c. 1816) • The Forge (c. 1817) • The Giant (1818) • Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) • Men Reading (c. 1819–1823) • The Dog (1820–1823) • Fight with Cudgels (1820–1823) • The Great He-Goat or Witches Sabbath (c. 1821–1823) • Leocadia (c. 1821–1823) • Saturn Devouring His Son (c. 1821–1823) • Two Old Men (c. 1821–1823) • Two Old Women Eating from a Bowl (c. 1821–1823) • Two Young People Laughing at a Man (c. 1821–1823) • The Milkmaid (1825–1827)
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