![]() Tiburcio Pérez died without children, and the painting was inherited by Agustín Durán, husband of Cayetana Cuervo, Tiburcio’s cousin. The informal mode of the portrait demonstrates the level of confidence between Pérez and Goya, and this is a much more direct and unceremonious image if compared to the portrait of Tiburcio’s uncle, Juan Antonio. Arrieta (Minneapolis Institute of Arts), painted in the same year. The picture dates from the same period as the so-called "Black Paintings" and the Self-Portrait with Dr. The portrait was painted after Goya’s near-fatal illness in 1819–20, during his residence in the Quinta del Sordo in the outskirts of Madrid. When Goya left for Bordeaux, in 1824, he entrusted his ten-year-old natural daughter, Rosario Weiss, to Tiburcio, before Rosario and her mother Leocadia joined him in France (for the life of Pérez, see Galassi 2006). In 1831 he designed, together with Francisco Javier de Mariátegui, the Royal College of Medicine on Calle de Atocha, and subsequently the gymnasium on the Paseo del Prado, both in Madrid. During the Peninsular War Tiburcio lived with his uncle. Tiburcio was an architecture student at the Real Academia de San Fernando from 1801, and after his uncle became director of its architectural section in 1815, he was elected as an academician in 1818. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was the nephew of a well-known Neoclassical architect, Juan Antonio Cuervo, who was portrayed by Goya in 1819 (Cleveland Museum of Art see fig. ![]() Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo was an architect and Goya’s close friend. ![]()
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