Manuel Godoy

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower right: Augustin Esteve de S. Mag (?)

Publications

Martin Soria, Agustin Esteve y Goya (Valencia, 1957), pp. 126–27, no. 112, figs. 75–76. Isadora Rose, “‘La celebrada caída de nuestros colores’: Destrucciónes espontáneas de retratos de Manuel Godoy por el poulacho,” Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando 47 (1978), p. 211, fig. 8.

Quick Overview

Artist: Agustin Esteve y Marqués (Spanish, 1753–c. 1820)
Date: 1800–8
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 117 × 84.2 cm (46 1/16 × 33 1/8 in.); Framed: 126.1 × 93.7 × 5.8 cm (49 5/8 × 36 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on canvas
Style: nineteenth century
Place: Spain
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Accession no.: 1954.312

Provenance

Masonic lodge, Burlington, Vermont, possibly from the early nineteenth century [acc. to Soria 1957]. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (died 1954), Burlington, Vermont, by 1945 [according to letter of November 26, 1945, from Daniel Catton Rich to Joseph Winterbotham in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1954.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.