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Old bawd with rosary and bottles
La madre Celestina (Mother Celestina); Sheet 22 from Album D (Witches and Old Women Album)
Old bawd with rosary and bottles
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1819–23
Medium/Technique
Brush and carbon black ink with wash on blued [smalt] white laid paper; pink paper remnants on verso
Dimensions
Sheet: 23. x 14.5 cm (9 3/16 x 5 11/16 in. )
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund
Accession Number59.200
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 1377; Gassier I, 106
DescriptionOld woman, seated, with rosary (or chain) and bottles (potions)
The subject is the old procuress, or bawd, Celestina, who was a character in Fernando de Rojas, Tragicomedia de Calixo y Melbea, 1499.
The subject is the old procuress, or bawd, Celestina, who was a character in Fernando de Rojas, Tragicomedia de Calixo y Melbea, 1499.
Marks
Lower left: black collector’s stamp of E. Calando (Lugt 837)
Watermark: fragment of lily from watermark of coat-of-arms with bend and fleur-de-lis (Gassier I, p. 141, wm. B.I)
Watermark: fragment of lily from watermark of coat-of-arms with bend and fleur-de-lis (Gassier I, p. 141, wm. B.I)
InscriptionsUpper center in iron gall (brown) ink: 22, in carbon black ink: 29 (by Madrazo, Album II).; lower left: collector’s stamp of E. Calando (Lugt 837); lower center in black crayon: La madre Celestina
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 28 (La Mère Célestine), to Émile Louis Dominique Calando (b. 1840–d. 1898), Paris, for fr. 15; December 11–12, 1899, Calando sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 75 (3 drawings), for fr. 215, to “Auger” (pseudonym for Émile Pierre Victor Calando, (b. 1872–d. 1953), Paris and Grasse, the seller’s son). Tony Mayer (b. 1902–d. 1997), London and Menerbes, France; December 3, 1957, Mayer sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 4. Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; March 12, 1959, sold by Zinser to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 12, 1959)