Resumen de Godoy's gift of his portrait to Pestalozzi in 1808
The writer clarifies the purpose of Auguste Esteve's second copy of Manuel Godoy, High Admiral and Protector of the Royal Pestalozzi Military Institute, an allegorical portrait by Goya. Letters and a contemporary newspaper demonstrate that the replica was commissioned by Godoy himself as a gift for celebrated Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. The original painting by Goya, placed prominently in the assembly room of the Military Institute in Madrid in 1807, was destroyed during disturbances that marked Godoy's downfall in March 1808.
