Diligencias nuebas o sillas de es paldas (New stage coaches or shoulder chairs), Sheet 24 from Album G (Bordeaux Album I)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

1824–28

Medium/TechniqueBlack crayon on blued [Prussian blue] white laid paper with irregularly trimmed left edge; drawn over faint image of full length figure of man eating from bowl.

DimensionsSheet :19.2 x 15.1 cm (7 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit LineArthur Tracy Cabot Fund

Accession number53.2376

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InscriptionsUpper right in black crayon: 24; lower left and lower right in black crayon: Diligencias / Nuebas, written over two earlier inscriptions and at right: sillas de es / paldas: Within image, on the chair: A la comedia No. 89Provenance1828, 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; before 1869, acquired from Federico de Madrazo by Jules Boilly (b. 1796–d. 1874), Paris; March 19-20, 1869, Boilly sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, part of lot 48 [see note 1], to Leurceau; possibly sold by Leurceau to Hyadès (an army inspector), Bordeaux. Private collection, Paris. By 1933, Alfred Strölin (dealer; b. 1871–d. 1954), Paris and Lausanne; to his son, Frederick (Fred or Fr.) Strölin (b. 1912 – d. 1974), Lausanne and Paris; 1953, sold by Frederick Strolin to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12,1953)

NOTE: [1] This was an album of twenty drawings. ("Scènes de moeurs espagnoles & Caprices")