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Lady María Josefa de Borja Pimentel y Téllez-Girón iure uxoris Duchess of Osuna, suo jure 12th Duchess of Benavente (26 November 1752 – 5 October 1834), was a Spanish Salonnière, famous as a patron of artists, writers and scientists and an important figure of the Spanish Age of Enlightenment.
Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna were among the country's leading ilustrados and important patrons of the arts and, specifically, of Goya, commissioning several paintings from him.
María Josefa de Borja Pimentel y Téllez-Girón, XII duquesa de Benavente (Madrid, 26 de noviembre de 1752-ibidem, 5 de octubre de 1834), fue una aristócrata española, duquesa consorte de Osuna, salonnière y mecenas del pintor Goya así como de otros artistas, escritores y científicos.
A portrait of the Duke of Osuna, Pedro Téllez Girón (1755-1807); his wife, the Countess-Duchess of Benavente, Josefa Alonso de Pimentel (1752-1834) and their four children: Francisco de Borja (1785-1820), the following Duke of Osuna; Pedro de Alcántara (1786-1851), the future Prince of Anglona; Maria Manuela (1783-1838) and Joaquina (1784 ...
He became known to history as the "Great Duke of Osuna". Another celebrated member was Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, who were among the most prominent patrons of the painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.
Doña María Josefa de la Soledad (Madrid, 1752 - 1834), as well as being the Countess-Duchess of Benavente, was the Duchess of Béjar, Mandas, Plasencia, Arcos and Gandía, Princess of Anglona and Esquilace, Marchioness of Lombay and Jabalquinto, and the Countess of Mayorga. She was one of the most prominent female figures of the Spanish ...
Aristócrata española, XII condesa-duquesa de Benavente, se casó con el duque de Osuna con quien tuvo nueve hijos de los que fallecieron cuatro. María Josefa Pimentel, era el prototipo de la mujer ilustrada; mecenas del pintor Goya, así como de otros artistas, escritores y científicos.
