Goya, an account of his life and works

by Albert Frederick Calvert

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SEPULTURA
DE LA FAMILIA
DE
GOICOECHEA
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AL MEJOR DE LOS PADRES
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EL AMOR FILIAL
ELEVA ESTE MONUMENTO
A LA MEMORIA
DE Dn MARTIN MIGUEL
DE GOICOECHEA
DEL COMMERCIO DE MADRID
NACIO EN ALSASUA
REYNO DE NAVARRA
EL 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 1755
Y FALLECIO EN BURDEOS
EL 30 DE JUNIO DE 1825
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ROGAD Á DIOS POR SU ALMA
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HIC JACET
FRANCISCUS A GOYA ET LUCIENTES
HISPANIENSIS PERITISSIMUS PICTOR
MAGNAQUE SUI NOMINIS
CELEBRITATE NOTUS
DECURSO, PROBE, LUMINE VITAE
OBIIT XVI. KALENDAS MARCII
ANNO DOMINI
M.DCCC.XXVIII.
AETATIS SUAE
LXXXV.
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R. I. P.

Goya’s remains were removed to Spain at the end of the nineteenth century. On the afternoon of May 11, 1900, the body was placed in the San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid, by the side of his old friends Menéndez Valdés and Leandro Moratin. Already in 1888 the Cortes had voted a sum of money for the creation of a suitable monument, and a magnificent cenotaph now marks the resting-place of the last great Spanish painter.

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
at the Edinburgh University Press

CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF GOYA

PORTRAITS

1. King Charles III.

The King is standing in hunting costume, wearing a black three-cornered hat, ample grey cloak, gaiters, etc. In his right hand a carbine, in his left, white gloves. At his feet his favourite white dog is lying, with collar inscribed ‘Rey nuestro señor.’

Background, an arid landscape, with shrubs; mountains beyond. (A copy is to be found in the Royal Palace, Madrid, and another in the possession of the Duque de Fernan Nuñez.)