Judgement of Paris (1757)
Judgement of Paris
Anton Raphael Mengs
1728–1779 · Neoclassicism. Wikipedia
Anton Raphael Mengs was a German Neoclassical painter.
Paintings by Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Ferdinand IV (1759)
Portrait of Ferdinand IV is a 1759 painting by Anton Raphael Mengs, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples. It depicts Ferdinand IV of the Kingdom of Naples, later (after 1816) known as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and was commissioned by his mother Maria Amalia of Saxony to celebrate Ferdinand's accession to the throne of Kingdom of Naples aged eight after his father Charles of Bourbon's abdicated that throne to be king of Spain. This makes it the first official painting of the new king, produced by the artist in October 1759 in around a month, though it was critiqued by the other court artists Luigi Vanvitelli, Giuseppe Bonito and Francesco Liani, who had been passed over for the commission. Mengs also produced in 1760 a second copy of the painting, which was sent to Ferdinand's parents in Madrid and which is now in the Prado Museum. Visually the main difference between the two paintings is the signature on 1760 copy, located on the square tile in bottom left corner.
Portrait of José Nicolás de Azara (1774)
Portrait of José Nicolás de Azara is a 1773–1774 oil on poplar panel portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs. It shows the Spanish diplomat José Nicolás de Azara, a friend of the artist and was completed in Florence in January 1774. 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.
Self-Portrait (Mengs)
Self-Portrait is a 1774 oil painting by the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs. A self-portrait, if shows the artist at work on Perseus and Andromeda, one of his last major paintings. Both that and this work were commissioned by British patrons, demonstrating his popularity there. It appears to capture a degree of his exhaustion under the weight of his work. This picture was produced for the aristocrat Earl Cowper who lived in Italy. Mengs was a major figure in the Neoclassical movement which was then at its height. The painting was acquired by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 1953. Around the same time he produced another notable Self-Portrait, now in the collection of the Uffizi in Florence.
María Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias (1765)
Retrato de la princesa de Asturias María Luisa de Parma (1751-1819), que llegaría a ser reina consorte de España por su matrimonio con el rey Carlos IV de España.
Perseus and Andromeda (1778)
Perseus and Andromeda
Charles III (1765)
Retrato del rey Carlos III de España (1716-1788), que fue hijo del rey Felipe V de España y de su segunda esposa, la reina Isabel de Farnesio.
Portrait of Pope Clement XIII (1759)
Portrait of pope Clement XIII painted by german painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Clement XIII was of the Venetian Rezzonico family and reigned as pope from 1758 to 1769. Mengs did several versions of Clement's portrait, and this one was probably carried out for Apostolic Vicar Domenico Rossi, whose name appears on the letter held by the pope. For centuries, the blessing gesture directed to the viewer had been common in images of Christ's representative on earth. Mengs rejected the fluid brushstrokes and dynamic pictorial expressions of Baroque and Rococo art. Clarity of forms and outlines, typical of Neoclassicism, defines his manner. For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 424, pp. 534-535.
Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine, Queen of Naples (1768)
Retrato de María Carolina de Austria (1752-1814), que fue hija del emperador Francisco I del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico y de la emperatriz María Teresa I de Austria y reina consorte de Nápoles por su matrimonio con el rey Fernando I de las Dos Sicilias.
Portrait of Infante Don Luis de Borbon (1776)
As a younger child of King Philip V of Spain, Don Luis received important religious posts, including Archbishop of Toledo and Seville. However, his philandering led to losing these titles and banishment from the court, while he became a crucial avant-garde art patron, especially of Goya. The encrustations of medals and cacophonous fabrics speak to Mengs's experiments in representing status, privilege, and royal honors in the age of Enlightenment, when rational skepticism began to confront absolutist, hereditary power.
Marquesa de Llano (1775)
Retrato de Isabel de Parreño y Arce, marquesa de Llano y esposa de José Agustín de Llano.
Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria (1772)
Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria (1752-1814), Queen consort of Naples and Sicily