Portrait of José Nicolás de Azara

Portrait of José Nicolás de Azara is a 1773-1774 oil on poplar panel portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs, bought by the Museo del Prado in November 2012 for 180,000 E from Azara's descendants. It shows the Spanish diplomat José Nicolás de Azara, a friend of the artist and was completed in Florence in January 1774.

Portrait of José Nicolás de Azara
ArtistAnton Raphael Mengs
Year1774
MediumOil on poplar panel
Dimensions77 cm × 61.5 cm (30 in × 24.2 in)
LocationPrado, Madrid

Azara also commissioned Domenico Cunego to engrave the portrait in burin and drypoint in 1781 from a drawing by Francisco Javier Ramos, a Spanish artist who had studied with Mengs. It was also engraved in 1784 by Jacopo Bossi, again in Rome, for inclusion in an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's History of the Art of Antiquity dedicated to Azara by Winckelmann himself. The painting remained in the subject's family after his death and between 1928 and 1976 they loaned it to the Museum of Fine Arts of Zaragoza.[1][2][3]

References
  1. (in Spanish) "Catalogue page".
  2. {es icon}} "Mengs Exhibition at the Prado".
  3. (in Spanish) "Lecture by Gudrun Maurer on the painting".
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