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Locos patines (Crazy Skates); Sheet 32 from Album G (Bordeaux Album I)


Crazy Skates (Locos patines), from Album G (Bordeaux Album I), 32
Lunatic Skates
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1824–28

Medium/Technique Black crayon on blued [Prussian blue] white laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 19.1 x 15.2 cm (7 1/2 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund
Accession Number53.2377
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Gassier & Wilson 1737; Gassier I, 390
DescriptionOn slighly textured, medium wt., gray-green laid paper, (h. chain lines at 25 mm).; with watermark of a heart surmounted by trefoil (Gassier I, p. 501, GH. I)
Marks Verso: MFA stamp in brown ink (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsUpper right in black crayon: 32; lower right inscribed in black crayon: title: Locos patines; lower left in graphite: Goya [in another hand]
Provenance
1828, by inheritance from the artist to his son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (b. 1784–d. 1854), Madrid; 1854, by inheritance to his son, Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (b. 1806–d. 1874), Madrid; about 1855-60, sold by Mariano Goya to Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid; before 1869, acquired from Federico de Madrazo by Jules Boilly (b. 1796–d. 1874), Paris; March 19-20, 1869, Boilly sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, part of lot 48 [see note 1], to Leurceau; possibly sold by Leurceau to Hyadès (an army inspector), Bordeaux. Private collection, Paris. By 1933, Alfred Strölin (dealer; b. 1871–d. 1954), Paris and Lausanne; to his son, Frederick (Fred or Fr.) Strölin (b. 1912 – d. 1974), Lausanne and Paris; 1953, sold by Frederick Strolin to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12,1953)

NOTE: [1] This was an album of twenty drawings. ("Scènes de moeurs espagnoles & Caprices")