{"id":1226,"title":"Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta","medium":"Oil on canvas","classification":"Paintings","dimension":"45 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (114.62 x 76.52 cm) (canvas)\r\n54 x 39 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (137.16 x 99.38 x 9.53 cm) (outer frame)","object_name":"Painting","continent":"Europe","country":"Spain","nationality":"Spanish","dated":"1820","room":"G306","list":"Euro-highlights-1800-1960s","role":"Artist","inscription":"Inscribed by artist at lower edge: Goya agradecido, à su amigo Arrieta: por el acierto y esmero con g.e le salvò la vida en su aguda y peligrosa enfermedad, padecido à fines de año 1819, a los setenta y tres de su edad. Lo pintó en 1820. \r\n[Goya, grateful to his friend Arrieta for his expert care, who saved his life during a painful and dangerous illness endured at the end of the year 1819 in the seventy-third year of his life, painted this in 1820. (translation by Myers 1964]","text":"As court painter to both Charles III and Charles IV of Spain, Goya achieved considerable fame as a portraitist. Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta, the last of his many self-portraits, was executed late in his life.  In 1819, Goya had fallen seriously ill and his doctor, Eugenio Garc’a Arrieta, nursed him back to health.  On recovering, he presented Arrieta with this painting which shows the physician ministering to his patient.  The words at the bottom read in translation, Goya gives thanks to his friend Arrieta for the expert care with which he saved his life from an acute and dangerous illness which he suffered at the close of the year 1819 when he was seventy-three years old.  He painted it in 1820. This inscription gives the canvas the look of an <i>ex-voto</i>, a type of religious painting still popular in Spain, which expresses gratitude for deliverance from a calamity.","creditline":"The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund","accession_number":"52.14","artist":"Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes","life_date":"Spanish, 1746–1828","department":"European Art","rights_type":"Public Domain","image_width":6459,"image_height":9620,"recent":0,"see_also":[],"sort_number":"52    14","image":"valid","public_access":1,"curator_approved":1,"highlights":0,"Cache_Location":"001000\\200\\20\\1226","Primary_RenditionNumber":"mia_6008087.jpg","Rights_Image_Display":"Full","list:euro-highlights-1800-1960s":true,"related:audio-stops":[{"title":"Francisco de Goya, Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta","_id":"1226","objectId":"1226","link":"http://audio-tours.s3.amazonaws.com/p721.mp3","number":"721","type":"audio"}],"related:artstories":[{"title":"Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta","_id":"1226","objectId":"1226","description":"<p>He is not well. His face is nearly as pale as the bed sheets. He’s too weak even to drink without help. And are those figures in the shadows real or hallucinations? Who knows? The old man has succumbed to that familiar feeling of weak and aching muscles, mind confused by feverish dreams, days lost to sleep. The painter of this picture—Francisco Goya, in a self-portrait—knew illness all too well. The younger man was his doctor, Eugenio Garcia Arrieta. Goya recovered to live another eight years and produce many more pictures, including this gift of thanks for his doctor.</p>","link":"http://artstories.artsmia.org/#/o/1226","type":"artstory"}],"mtime":"2026-03-13T09:00:09.514Z"}