Bearded Woman With Child. Esta Muger fue retratada en Napoles por José Ribera o el Españoleto, por los años de 1640 (This Woman Was Painted in Naples by Jusepe Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto, about the year 1640). Album E (Black Border Album), number indecipherable [7 ?]

Bearded Woman Holding a Child (Drawing from Journal-Album E, ) (Esta Muger fue retratada en Napoles por José Ribera ó el Españoleto, por los años de 1640 (This woman was painted in Naples by José Ribera, or lo Spagnoletto, about 1640) [Magdalena Ventura]

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Based on: Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish (active in Italy), 1591–1652)

1816–20

Medium/Technique Brush and carbon black ink with wash and scraping on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 25.8 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Frances and Philip Hofer in honor of Eleanor A. Sayre

Accession Number1973.504

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Gassier & Wilson 1395; Gassier I, 123 as E-22

Marks Verso, upper left corner: blue stamp of German customs, probably Stuttgart station; MFA stamp in brown ink (Lugt 282), with accession number in graphite.
Watermark: Fragment [NIG] of HONIG & ZOONEN (reprod. Gassier I, p. 167)

InscriptionsLower center within border in graphite reinforced with black crayon: Esta Muger fue retratada en Napoles por José Ribera o el Españoleto, por los años de 1640; upper center in brown ink [residual]: [indecipherable number]

Provenance1828, by inheritance from the artist to his son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (b. 1784–d. 1854), Madrid; 1854, 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, Madrazo (under the name of Paul Lebas) sale, "105 Dessins par Francisco Goya," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 105, sold for fr. 20 to Eugène Féral for Victor Hugo (b. 1802–d. 1885), Paris [see note 1]. After 1924, Simon Meller (dealer; b. 1875–d. 1949), Budapest, Munich, and Paris. Franz Koenigs (b. 1881–d. 1941), Haarlem [see note 2]; June 29, 1960, anonymous (“property of a lady,” probably Koenigs) sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 19, sold for £1400 to “Put,” i.e., Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. about 1883–d. 1983), Forest Hills, NY; 1962, sold by Zinser to Philip and Frances Hofer, Cambridge, MA [see note 3]; 1973, gift of Philip and Frances Hofer to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 12, 1973)

NOTES:
[1] On the early history of Goya's albums, see Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Goya Drawings from His Private Albums (London: Hayward Gallery, 2001), 24-25, and on the provenance of this drawing, pp. 188-189, cat. 72.

[2] According to the Sotheby's catalogue. Although this drawing was consigned anonymously, Sotheby's, London sold a number of other works of art from the Koenigs collection around 1958/1960.

[3] As recorded on an old mat for the drawing.