Portrait of Don Manuel Osorio and Suniga, Francisco Goya 
- Posted by Francisco de Goya
- Museum: Metropolitan Museum
- Year: Around 1792
Overview of the painting :
Portrait of Don Manuel Osorio and Suniga – Francisco Goya. Around 1792. Oil on canvas. 127×101.6
Goya’s genius was a unique phenomenon in Spanish art of the 18-19th centuries.which he raised to the greatness of previous times. The artist’s work went through the last period of Rococo, reaching the threshold of realism and revealed, in a huge variety of stories. In portraits, almost a century anticipating romantic ideas, the Spanish master managed to reveal the psychological essence of the characters through the appearance.
This is a canvas depicting little Osorio, born in 1784., is one of a series of mesh portraits ordered by Count Altamir. A child dressed in a bright red suit is placed on a monochrome background, which focuses on his figure. In the hands of the baby, a lace tied to the lapka of the magpie, which, justifying its glory as a “touring”, holds the artist’s business card in the beak, which with such an original technique places its signature at work. Other animals depicted in the picture contain a symbolic meaning, indicating how illusory the border between the naive children’s world is and the forces of evil that await it.