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Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon

c. 1776
Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779) visual detail
ArtistAnton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779)
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Maria Luisa, Duquesa de San Fernando, Madrid (youngest daughter of Don Luis, died 1847); Carlota Lui...

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Maria Luisa, Duquesa de San Fernando, Madrid (youngest daughter of Don Luis, died 1847); Carlota Luisa, Duquesa de Sueca, Condesa da Chinchon, Boadilla del Monte (granddaughter of Don Luis, niece of Maria Luisa, died 1886); Adolfo Ruspoli, Duque de Sueca, Conde de Chinchon, Boadilla del Monte (son of Carlota Luisa, died, Paris, February 4, 1914; liquidation: Paris, February 7, 1914); Comte de Maubou, Paris; [Wildenstein & Co., New York]. Purchase, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Bequest, 1966.

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Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (organizer) (November 23, 1996-January 19, 1997). Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, 1961/62: "Goya"cat. no. 21.

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As a younger child of King Philip V of Spain, Don Luis received important religious posts, including Archbishop of Toledo and Seville. However, his philandering led to losing these titles and banishment from the court, while he became a crucial avant-garde art patron, especially of Goya. The encrustations of medals and cacophonous fabrics speak to Mengs's experiments in representing status, privilege, and royal honors in the age of Enlightenment, when rational skepticism began to confront absolutist, hereditary power.

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