Goyas belong to the State and not Tobacco Company, says Spanish Court
March 27 2026
Picture: elespanol.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Spain that a court has ruled that pair of Goyas depicting Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma belong to the Spanish state and not the successor company of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville who commissioned the paintings in 1789. This puts an end to nine years of litigation, which surrounded the complex question of legal ownership of the pair after a change in the tobacco monopoly in Spain in the late nineteenth century and a Royal decree of 1896. Click on the link above to read the full story.
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