Woman Holding Up Her Dying Lover, Doouble-sided drawing from Album B (Madrid Sketchbook, 35 (recto of 36) On verso: Couple Conversing on the Paseo

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

1794–97

Medium/Technique Brush and carbon black ink with wash and touches of iron gall ink on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 23.6 x 14.5 cm (9 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by the Frederick J. Kennedy Memorial Foundation

Accession Number1973.700a

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Gassier & Wilson 0403; Gassier I, 48

DescriptionDouble sided drawing from l Album B. Recto: Page 35 from Journal Album B; later used for Capricho plate 10. On verso: Couple Conversing on the Paseo (B 36)

Marks Watermark: fragment of coat-or-arms with bend and fleur

InscriptionsUpper right in black iron gall ink: 35 and 4 [encircled; by Madrazo]. Verso: Drawing of man and woman in brush and carbon black ink with wash and iron gall ink; upper left in carbon black ink: 36; upper right in iron gall ink: 4 [in bracket, by Madrazo, Album III)

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; April 3, 1877, Paul Lebas (probably acting on behalf of Madrazo) sale, "105 Dessins par Francisco Goya," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 69 [see note 1], to Baron Maurice Alfred Martin de Beurnonville (b. 1826–d. 1895) for fr. 50; February 16–19, 1885, Beurnonville sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 51 to Phillipe for fr. 105. By 1954 (?), Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978) Cambridge, MA; June 12, 1974, sold by Philip and Frances Hofer, through R. M. Light (dealer), Boston, to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: June 12, 1974)

NOTE: [1] As "Les suites d’un duel." [2] Hofer’s collection of Goya works on paper was first offered to the MFA on June 13, 1973.