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An Old Man Writing, inscribed "Tuto he mestier" (All is Trade) and "Mucho sabes, y aun aprendes (You know a lot and you're still learning), Sheet (page 15 ?) from Black Border Sketchbook (Journal-Album E)
Verso (gray wash sketch): Three Figures, including young woman pushing away a youth who is running oward the right, also partial sketch of young woman upside down
Bearded Old Man
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[Old Man Writing] Mucho sabes y aun aprendes (You Know a Lot and You're Still Learning); Sheet 15 from Album E (Black Border Album)
An Old Man Writing, inscribed "Tuto he mestier" (All is Trade) and "Mucho sabes, y aun aprendes (You know a lot and you're still learning), Sheet (page 15 ?) from Black Border Sketchbook (Journal-Album E)
Verso (gray wash sketch): Three Figures, including young woman pushing away a youth who is running oward the right, also partial sketch of young woman upside down
Bearded Old Man
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1814-19
Medium/Technique
Brush and possible iron gall ink and carbon black ink with wash and scraping on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper; pink paper remnants
Verso: Gray wash sketch sheet of three figures, including young woman pushing away a youth who is running oward the right, also partial sketch of young woman upside down
Verso: Gray wash sketch sheet of three figures, including young woman pushing away a youth who is running oward the right, also partial sketch of young woman upside down
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.4 x 18 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund
Accession Number58.359
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 1390; Gassier I, 118
DescriptionOld bearded man standing in profile at a tall desk. He writes on a book the words "Tuto he mestier" (All is Trade)
Slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper (v. ch. 29 mm.) with remains of pink paper mount on verso; Watermark Fragment of HONIG & ZOONEN (Gassier I, p. 167, (watermark "E")
Slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper (v. ch. 29 mm.) with remains of pink paper mount on verso; Watermark Fragment of HONIG & ZOONEN (Gassier I, p. 167, (watermark "E")
Marks
Watermark: NIG (Fragment of HONIG & ZOONEN) (Gassier I, p. 167, watermark E.
InscriptionsUpper center in brown ink: [residual] 15; lower center in black crayon: Mucho sabes y aun aprendes; within image: Tuto he mestier
Verso: Sketch of three figures in brush and carbon black ink wash
Verso: Sketch of three figures in brush and carbon black ink wash
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; about 1855–60, sold by Mariano Goya to Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid, and/or his brother-in-law Román Garreta y Huerta, Paris; April 3, 1877, Paul Lebas (probably acting on behalf of Madrazo) sale, 105 Dessins par Francisco Goya, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 18 [see note 1], sold for fr. 10 to Eugène Féral (sale expert, b. 1832–d. 1900), probably on behalf of Paul Meurice (b. 1818–d. 1905), Paris; May 25, 1906, posthumous Meurice sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. April 9, 1957, sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 7. 1958, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 11, 1958)
NOTES: [1] As "Tu sais beaucoup et tu apprends encore."
NOTES: [1] As "Tu sais beaucoup et tu apprends encore."