Portrait of Ignacio Garcini y Queralt

The painting was created in 1804 as a portrait of Ignacio de Garcini y Queralt. It is executed in oil on canvas and measures 104.1 cm in height by 83.2 cm in width. The work entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains on view in Gallery 619 within the Goya and Eighteenth-Century Italy installation.

Goya’s 1804 Portrait of Ignacio Garcini y Queralt has been discussed primarily within the context of the artist’s late-period portraiture and its stylistic dialogue with eighteenth-century Spanish and Italian traditions. The work is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it is displayed in the Goya and Eighteenth-Century Italy gallery, underscoring its positioning within a transalpine cultural exchange that shaped the period’s portrait conventions.

Scholarly attention has focused on the painting’s fusion of Goya’s incisive psychological realism with the formal elegance associated with Italian portraiture of the late eighteenth century. The measured composition, subdued palette, and restrained yet penetrating characterization align with Goya’s mature portrait style, reflecting both his courtly experience and his evolving engagement with Romantic-era subjectivity.

Created in 1804, this oil portrait by Francisco Goya presents Ignacio de Garcini y Queralt in a formal military pose. Executed in the artist’s mature period, the work is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection and exemplifies Goya’s engagement with portraiture during a time of political turbulence in Spain.