Artwork Details
- Title
- Caballero de la familia Goyena (Gentleman of the Goyena Family)
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1835-1843
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 2 7⁄8 x 2 3⁄8 in. (7.3 x 6.1 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Teodoro Vidal Collection
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Portrait male — Goyena — waist length
- Object Number
- 1996.91.13
Artwork Description
This dashing young man wears a fashionable pin in his shirt, and is seated on a fancy chair with a painted or inlaid design. The piece is inscribed "J J Goyena Pinx"---"pinx," short for pinxit, means "painted" in Latin, and is often found on older European paintings.