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Lunatics (Locos) Album G (Bordeaux Album I), 35
Locos (Lunatics), Sheet 35 from a Bordeaux Album (Journal-Album G)
Lunatics (Locos) Album G (Bordeaux Album I), 35
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1824–28
Medium/Technique
Black crayon with touches of black charcoal or chalk on blued [Prussian blue] white laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 18.6 x 14.8cm (7 5/16 x 5 13/16in.)
Credit Line
William E. Nickerson Fund, No. 2
Accession Number55.662
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 1740; Gassier I, 393
DescriptionStreet musician playing to crowd of costumed figures.
Signed
not signed
Marks
Watermark: heart surmounted by trefoil (Gassier, vol. I, GH. I)
InscriptionsUpper center in black chalk: Locos; upper right in black chalk: 35; lower left in graphite: Goya (cropped) in another hand
Provenance1828, by inheritance to the artist’s 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 Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, and/or Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid. Maurice Marignane (dealer, b. 1879 - d. 1956; cf. Lugt 1872), Paris. About 1928, 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; 1955, sold by Frederick Strölin, through Hofstetter and Co., Lausanne, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 20, 1955)