  About the Artwork
  
  
  Goya, a powerful Spanish portraitist, shows us an alert, personable, and intelligent woman, poised in her chair. X-rays reveal that Doña Amalia was originally painted wearing a brightly colored embroidered dress and with roses affixed to her mantilla. When her father died eight years later, the artist was asked to repaint her clothes to show her in the black garb of mourning.
  
  
  Title
  Dona Amalia Bonells de Costa
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1805
  
  Artist
  Francisco Goya
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1746-1828
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Spanish
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 34 3/8 × 25 3/4 inches (87.3 × 65.4 cm)
  Framed: 43 × 34 × 2 7/8 inches (109.2 × 86.4 × 7.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Painting
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  41.80
  
  
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