Victoria carolina coronado was born in almendralejo (badajoz) on december 12, 1820. Short bust portrait in one of the most beautiful testimonies of the painter's psychological portraiture, focusing on the face of the writer from which feelings emerge that reflect the depth of a soul wounded by the recent death of her first-born son. In profile and with his face turned towards the viewer, his dreamy and at the same time determined gaze stands out with toned lighting, which combines a rictus of melancholy in the contained smile that his lips evoke. In mourning, she partially covers her head with a lace mantilla that reveals the waves of her hair adorned with a natural braid, underlining with a point of light the transparency of the white lace and the intensity of the black velvet that trims her undershirt. To the scarce developed chromatic palette, rooted in the purest national baroque tradition, the painter also combines the resource of the hand holding the fan peeking above the natural framing, in contrast with the soft tonal degradation that diffusely closes the background of the portrait in suggestive forms that evoke romantic landscapes (text extracted from gutiérrez, a. In: the spanish portrait in the prado. From goya to sorolla, national museum of prado, 2007, p. Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1855. Dimensions: height: 65 cm (25.5 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Museo del Prado. Carolina Coronado, por Federico de Madrazo
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