About This Artwork
Agustin Esteve y Marqués
Spanish, 1753-c.1820
Manuel Godoy1800-08
Oil on canvas
46 1/16 x 33 1/8 in. (117 x 84.2 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Augustin Esteve de S. Mag (?)
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.312
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Martin Soria, Agustin Esteve y Goya (Valencia, 1957), pp. 126–27, no. 112, figs. 75–76.
Isadora Rose, “‘La celebrada caída de nuestros colores’: Destrucciónes espontáneas de retratos de Manuel Godoy por el poulacho,” Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando 47 (1978), p. 211, fig. 8.
Ownership History
Masonic lodge, Burlington, Vermont, possibly from the early nineteenth century [acc. to Soria 1957]. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vermont, by 1945 [according to letter of November 26, 1945, from Daniel Catton Rich to Joseph Winterbotham in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1954.