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Woman Reclining Against a Dead Tree
La resignacìon (Resignation); Sheet 33 Album E (Black Border Album 33)
Woman Reclining Against a Dead Tree
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1816–20
Medium/Technique
Brush and carbon black ink with wash and scraping on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.5 x 17.9 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Landon T. Clay
Accession Number69.68
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 1402; Gassier 1,129
DescriptionOn slightly textured, moderately thick cream laid paper (v. ch. 28, 29 mm.); Watermark: on lower right corner of recto: fragment of lion from watermark of J HONIG & ZOONEN (reprod. Gassier I, p. 167, Watermark E)
Signed
not signed
Marks
Watermark: on lower right corner of recto: fragment of lion from watermark of J HONIG & ZOONEN (reprod. Gassier I, p. 167, Watermark E)
InscriptionsUpper center in iron gall ink: 33; lower center in black crayon: title
Verso: center in graphite: 33 / A 35 [?]; l.c. in graphite: 86067, and l.l. edge in graphite and added black chalk: WCA 2815
Verso: center in graphite: 33 / A 35 [?]; l.c. in graphite: 86067, and l.l. edge in graphite and added black chalk: WCA 2815
Provenance1828, 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. Possibly Federico de Madrazo, Madrid. Possibly Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta. Possibly 1913, Archer M. Huntington (b. 1870 - d. 1955), New York and Bethel, CT. By 1950, Henry Baldwin Hyde (b. 1915–d. 1997), and Marie de la Grange Hyde (b. 1919 - d. 1983), New York; April 24, 1961, sold by Henry B. Hyde to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. WCA 2815) and Pinakos, Inc.; April 21, 1963, sold by Knoedler to Robert Strausz-Hupé (b. 1903 – d. 2002), Newtown Square, PA. 1968, S. Gary Hoffman, Garick Fine Arts, Philadelphia. 1969, sold by William H. Schab (dealer), New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 15, 1969)