This set of miniature portraits by Francisco Goya was painted to celebrate the marriage of his only surviving child, Francisco Javier Goya y Bayeu, to Gumersinda Goicoechea in 1805. The boy was twenty one years old at the time. The miniatures show his bride’s parents and sisters, as well as the new couple. The pictures were painted in oil on copper discs 8cm in diameter. Over the years they have been dispersed and are now in various collections, so cannot be seen as a group, as they should be.
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