World culture: The portrait of Pedro de Alcantara by Goya is exhibited in the Museum Del Prado

The National Museum of Prado (Madrid, Spain) presented a portrait of "Pedro de Alcantara Tellez-Giron and Pacheco, IX Duke of Osuna" by the work of Francisco Goya - one of the most interesting of his paintings which are in the Frick Collection (New York).

Collection of Frick (Frick Collection) - is a private collection of Western European paintings, located in New York. The bulk of the collection was assembled by industrialist Henry Clay American Frick (1849-1919).

Visitors can get acquainted with this work of the famous Spanish artist within three months. The exhibition is held under the portrait of the "Invited picture", launched by the Foundation of Friends of the Prado Museum in 2010.

Portrait of Pedro de Alcantara is usually dated to the year 1798, but the recent restoration of the paintings held in the Metropolitan Museum (New York), has revealed a wealth of techniques and colors, which indicates that the picture is likely to belong to a later period of the master. It could have been written after the death of the Duke of Osuna in 1807.

Pedro de Alcantara Tellez-Giron and Pacheco, IX Duke of Osuna was one of the first and the most important patrons of Goya since the mid 1780s, after his death, the artist worked for his widow and children. The National Museum of Prado exhibited a number of works by Goya, painted for the family Osuna.