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Francisco Goya (Self Portrait ?)
Formerly attributed to: Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
about 1783
Medium/Technique
Graphite heightened with black chalk,with stumping (rubbing) on cream laid paper
Moderately textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper (4 horiz. chains with spacing of 27mm.)
Moderately textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper (4 horiz. chains with spacing of 27mm.)
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 x 8.1 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by the Frederick J. Kennedy Memorial Foundation
Accession Number1973.699
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 0202: Gassier II, 316
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsL.r. in black chalk: Goya
ProvenanceJavier Goya (b. 1784 – d. 1854); 1854, by inheritance to Mariano Goya (b. 1806 – d. 1874); about 1861, sold to Valentín Carderera y Solano, Madrid (b. 1790 – d.1880); 1880, by inheritance to Eduardo Carderera Ponzán (b. – d. 1922), Madrid; by descent to his niece, Dolores Pavia y Carderera de Amunategui, Madrid; to her daughter, Concepcion Amunategui y Pavia [see note 1]. By 1926, José Lazaro Galdiano (b. 1862 – d. 1947), Madrid [see note 2]. 1959, [E.] Christopher Norris (b. 1907 – d. 1987), London; July, 1959, sold by Christopher Norris to Philip Hofer (b. 1898 – d. 1984) and Frances Hofer, Cambridge, MA [see note 3]; 1973, sold by Philip and Frances Hofer, through Robert M. Light, Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1974)
NOTES:
[1] Information about the Amuntategui family is taken from "Sobre el Autorretrato de Goya en el Museum of Fine Arts, Boston": Archivo Español de Arte. XCV, 379, July - Sept. 2022, p. 257.
[2] Cano Diaz, 2022, (as above, note 1). He may still have owned it in 1935, when August L. Mayer published it as being in the Lazaro Galdiano collection; see “Les tableaux de Goya du Musée d’Agen,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1935, p. 173.
[3] According to a handwritten note by P. Hofer in MFA Archive and copy in Department of Prints and Drawings objects files.
NOTES:
[1] Information about the Amuntategui family is taken from "Sobre el Autorretrato de Goya en el Museum of Fine Arts, Boston": Archivo Español de Arte. XCV, 379, July - Sept. 2022, p. 257.
[2] Cano Diaz, 2022, (as above, note 1). He may still have owned it in 1935, when August L. Mayer published it as being in the Lazaro Galdiano collection; see “Les tableaux de Goya du Musée d’Agen,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1935, p. 173.
[3] According to a handwritten note by P. Hofer in MFA Archive and copy in Department of Prints and Drawings objects files.