Product Description
Blush colour, aristocratic posture. The pink comes from the Neoclassical Pop Art version, which repaints the duchess as new art while her stance stays proud. Pink softens her black mourning dress without taking away her authority; she holds court over a contemporary sofa.
Neoclassical Pop Art's “The Black Duchess, Goya Pose” repaints the Spanish painter Francisco Goya's “The Black Duchess” (c. 1797), from the Hispanic Society of America, New York, in blush pink. The colour softens the black dress; the pointing hand still gives orders.
The Romanticism style painting portrays María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, painted during the eight months Goya was a guest in her estate in Spain from 1796 to 1797.
In the original painting, the 35 Years Old Duchess is wearing a black dress of a Maja, mourning the death of her husband a year earlier.
Although Goya was fifty, deaf, married, and still not fully recovered from an illness, some speculate they may have had a romance because her right index finger points the ground where the words solo Goya (only Goya) written on the sand, and her rings inscribed Alba and Goya The painting had great personal importance to Goya, who kept it in his studio long after her death.
The Neoclassical Version comes in colorful and playful colors of hope and love.
A collectible original artwork. Created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio as an original contemporary painting.
A proud woman, softly lit.
Made for true art lovers, it is a collectible statement piece where the old masters meet pop culture.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2018
- Dimensions : Available in 5 sizes, from 11"x14" (28x36 cm) to 48"x60" (122x152 cm), or a custom size on request
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Movement & Style : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Hand-painted in oil on stretched canvas
