La Tirana (Goya, 1794)

La Tirana is a 1794 oil on canvas portrait by Francisco de Goya. It was last recorded in the March collection in Palma de Mallorca in 2001.

It is the second of two portraits he produced of the actress María del Rosario Fernández, known as 'La Tirana' after her actor husband Francisco Castellanos, who was nicknamed el Tirano. The other is in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Bibliography (in Spanish)

Glendinning, Nigel (1992). Central Hispano, ed. Goya. La década de los Caprichos. pp. 148-149. ISBN 84-87181-10-4.
Gómez García, Manuel (1998). Diccionario Akal de Teatro. Ediciones Akal. ISBN 9788446008279.
Huerta, Javier; Peral, Emilio; Urzaiz, Héctor (2005). Espasa-Calpe, ed. Teatro español de la A a la Z. Madrid. ISBN 9788467019698.

Francisco Goya

List of works

Paintings

Paintings	Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga (c. 1763) The Holy Family with Saints Joachim and Anne (c. 1769) The Rape of Europa (1772) Christ Crucified (1780) The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783–84) The Greasy Pole (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–87) Paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna (1786–87) Saint Bernard of Clairvaux curing a cripple (1787) Yard with Lunatics (1793–94) Prison Interior (1793–94) Assault of Thieves (1793–94) The Duchess of Alba and la Beata (1795) Witches' Flight (1797–98) The Bewitched Man (1797–98) Witches' Sabbath (1798) La maja desnuda (c. 1797–1800) La maja vestida (1800–1805) Allegory of Industry (c. 1805) Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812) The Water Bearer (1808–1812) The Knifegrinder (1808–1812) Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks (1808–1812) The Colossus (after 1808) Truth, Time and History (1812–1814) The Madhouse (1812–1819) The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819) The Second of May 1808 (1814) The Third of May 1808 (1814) The Junta of the Philippines (1815) A Village Bullfight (1815–1819) The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816) A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816) The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time (1770–71) The Forge (c. 1817) Bullfight (1824)
Portraits	The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children (1787–88) Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (or Red Boy) (c. 1788) La Tirana (1792) La Tirana (1794) Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana (1795) The White Duchess (1795) Portrait of Charles IV of Spain (c. 1795) The Black Duchess (1797) Bernardo de Iriarte (1797) Portrait of Ferdinand Guillemardet (1798–99) Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799) Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma The Countess of Chinchon (1800) Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–01) Portrait of Manuel Godoy (1801) Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–05) Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz (1805) Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1805) Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1810–11) Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812) Self-portrait at 69 years (1815) Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) Portrait of Don Ramón Satué (1823) The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827)
Frescoes	Adoration of the Name of God (1772) Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei (1774)
Tapestry cartoons (list)	The Boar Hunt (1775) The Parasol (c. 1777) Boys playing soldiers (1778–79) Children in a Chariot (1779) The Swing (1779) La novillada (1780) The Grape Harvest (1786) Summer (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–87) The Threshing Floor (1786–87) Blind Man's Bluff (1789) The Wedding (1791–92)
Black Paintings (c. 1819–1823)	Saturn Devouring His Son Judith and Holofernes Witches' Sabbath A Pilgrimage to San Isidro La Leocadia Two Old Men Men Reading Man Mocked by Two Women Fight with Cudgels Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro Atropos Asmodea Two Old Ones Eating Soup The Dog

Print series

Los Caprichos (1797–98)	And so was his grandfather The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Prisoners (1810–1815)
The Disasters of War (1810–1820)	This is worse (c. 1812–13)
La Tauromaquia (1815–16)	Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón
Los Disparates (1815–1823)	A way of flying (c. 1815–16)
The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824–25)

Depictions

The Naked Maja (1958 film)
Goya, a Story of Solitude (1971 film)
Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971 film)
Goya: A Life in Song (1989 album)
Goya in Bordeaux (1999 film)
Volavérunt (1999 film)
Goya's Ghosts (2006 film)
The Ministry of Time – Episode 25: Time of the Enlightened (2017)