Mariano Ferrer y Aulet
1780 Museu de Belles Arts de València
About this artwork
This portrait depicts the Spanish painter and academic Mariano Ferrer y Aulet, who served as a prominent figure in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. It is an oil-on-canvas work characteristic of Goya's portraiture during his early career.
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Mariano Ferrer y Aulet was not only a painter but a pivotal administrator who helped rebuild and organize the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. Goya's depiction captures his subject's professional status and intellectual character, reflecting the artist's burgeoning mastery in characterizing the Spanish elite of the late Enlightenment era.
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Mariano Ferrer y Aulet
Francisco Goya, 1780
