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拍品专文
In this pair of canvases Velázquez draws his inspiration from Francisco Goya’s Corrida de Toros en un Pueblo and Escena de Inquisición, now in the collection of the Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. The original paintings by Goya are part of a series of five panels that the artist conceived probably between 1812 and 1820.
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and spent considerable time copying works by Goya, who was a great influence. The scene here reproduced in A bullfight was described by the historian José Camón Aznar, when originally painted by Goya, as 'one of the richest and most substantial examples of Goya’s art’ (J.L. Morales y Marin, Goya: a catalogue of his paintings, Saragossa, 1997, p. 335, no. 474).
The scene depicted in The Inquisition seems to have been directly inspired by two important trials by the Inquisition which took place in Madrid on the 24th of November 1778, against Pablo de Olavide, and on the 9th of May 1784, against a man and two women. Both scenes were presumably witnessed by Goya (op. cit. , p. 334, no. 471). The condemned are wearing the typical penitential garment called Sanbenito and the Coroza, a conical hat. The Inquisition was abolished in 1812 by the Cortes de Cádiz and then dissolved in 1834, after the death of Fernando VII.
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and spent considerable time copying works by Goya, who was a great influence. The scene here reproduced in A bullfight was described by the historian José Camón Aznar, when originally painted by Goya, as 'one of the richest and most substantial examples of Goya’s art’ (J.L. Morales y Marin, Goya: a catalogue of his paintings, Saragossa, 1997, p. 335, no. 474).
The scene depicted in The Inquisition seems to have been directly inspired by two important trials by the Inquisition which took place in Madrid on the 24th of November 1778, against Pablo de Olavide, and on the 9th of May 1784, against a man and two women. Both scenes were presumably witnessed by Goya (op. cit. , p. 334, no. 471). The condemned are wearing the typical penitential garment called Sanbenito and the Coroza, a conical hat. The Inquisition was abolished in 1812 by the Cortes de Cádiz and then dissolved in 1834, after the death of Fernando VII.