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Man Pulling Up his Breeches, page 86 (verso) of double-sided drawing from the " Madrid Sketchbook" (Journal-Album B)
Good Priest, Where Was It Celebrated? (Buen sacerdote, ¿donde se ha celebrado?) {Man Pulling Up his Breeches] Album B, 86 (verso of double-sided drawing)
Man Pulling Up his Breeches, page 86 (verso) of double-sided drawing from the " Madrid Sketchbook" (Journal-Album B)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1794–97
Medium/Technique
Brush and carbon black ink with wash on blued [smalt] laid paper, pink paper remnants
On the recto: Album B 85
On the recto: Album B 85
Dimensions
Sheet: 23.7 x 14.4 cm (9 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession Number63.984b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 0444; Gassier I, 89
DescriptionDouble-sided drawing: (b) Verso : page 86 inscribed : Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado?" (Good priest, where was it celebrated?) This drawing is a source for Caprichos 18
(a) Recto: page 85 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.(63.984a)
(a) Recto: page 85 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.(63.984a)
Signed
not signed
Marks
Watermark: fragment of fleur-de-lis (Gassier I, p. 47, B. 1)
InscriptionsUpper left in carbon black ink: 86; lower center in iron gall (brown) ink: "Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado?" Verso: [see 63.984a]
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)