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[On recto: Young Woman Holding up her Dying Lover]
Couple Conversing on the Paseo (page 36, verso of double-sided drawing from the Madrid Sketchbook (Journal-Album B)
[On recto: Young Woman Holding up her Dying Lover]
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1794–97
Medium/Technique
Brush and gray wash, touched with iron gall ink faded to brown 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 Number1973.700b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 0404; Gassier I, 49
DescriptionVerso of double sided drawing from Album B. (Recto: Page 35 from Journal Album B; later used for Capricho plate 10 ). .
Marks
Watermark: fragment of coat-of-arms with bend and fleur-de-lis)
InscriptionsRecto: u.r , pen and black ink, "3" (in bracket by Madrazo); u.r., brush and gray wash, "35"
Verso: u.l. brush and gray wash, "36"; u.r. pen and black ink , "3"
Verso: u.l. brush and gray wash, "36"; u.r. pen and black ink , "3"
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. 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. (Accession Date: June 12, 1974)
NOTES: [1] As "Conversation galante."
NOTE: Hofer’s collection of Goya works on paper was first offered to the MFA on June 13, 1973.
NOTES: [1] As "Conversation galante."
NOTE: Hofer’s collection of Goya works on paper was first offered to the MFA on June 13, 1973.