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Three Figures Seated at an Open Window (recto, page 85 of double-sided drawing from the "Madrid Sketchbook" (Journal-Album B)
It is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (Es herano y a la luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan / al tiento) [Three Figures Seated at an Open Window] Double-sided drawing in Album B (Madrid Sketchbook) No. 85;, on verso B 86 :"Buen Sacerdote..." (Good Priest....)
Three Figures Seated at an Open Window (recto, page 85 of double-sided drawing from the "Madrid Sketchbook" (Journal-Album B)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1794–97
Medium/Technique
Double-sided album drawing: Brush and carbon black ink with wash on blued (smalt) white laid paper remnants of pink mount; on verso, Album B 86 Man Pulling Up his Breeches ("Buen Sacerdote...") (63.984b)
Dimensions
Sheet: 23.6 x 14.2 - 14.5 cm (9 5/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession Number63.984a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 0443; Gassier I, 88
DescriptionRecto page 65: Three Figures Seated at an Open Window inscribed : es b(h)erano y ala luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan/ al tiento(IIt is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (b) Verso : page 86 Man pulling up his breeches, inscribed : Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado?" (Good priest, where was it celebrated?) (63.984b)
Signed
unsigned
Marks
watermark: fragment of Fleur-de-lis (Gassier I, p. 47, B. 1)
Inscriptions(a) Recto: u.r., in carbon black ink: 85."; Below image in pen and brown ink:"es b(h)erano y ala luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan/ al tiento"
Verso (63.984b): Upper left in carbon black ink: 86; lower center in iron gall (brown) ink: "Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado? "
Verso (63.984b): Upper left in carbon black ink: 86; lower center in iron gall (brown) ink: "Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado? "
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 Kunz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid; probably in 1866, given or sold by Madrazo to Scipione Vannutelli (b. 1834–d. 1894), Rome; by descent to his heirs, the Clementi-Vannutelli family. Carlo Sestieri (dealer), Rome. 1963, Colnaghi and Co., London; 1963, sold by Colnaghi and Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 5, 1963)