[Old Man Writing] Mucho sabes y aun aprendes (You Know a Lot and You're Still Learning); Sheet 15 from Album E (Black Border Album)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1814-19
Medium/TechniqueBrush and possible iron gall ink and carbon black ink with wash and scraping on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper; pink paper remnants
Verso: Gray wash sketch sheet of three figures, including young woman pushing away a youth who is running oward the right, also partial sketch of young woman upside down
DimensionsSheet: 26.4 x 18 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number58.359
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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, Paris; April 3, 1877, Paul Lebas (probably acting on behalf of Madrazo) sale, 105 Dessins par Francisco Goya, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 18 [see note 1], sold for fr. 10 to Eugène Féral (sale expert, b. 1832–d. 1900), probably on behalf of Paul Meurice (b. 1818–d. 1905), Paris; May 25, 1906, posthumous Meurice sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. April 9, 1957, sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 7. 1958, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 11, 1958)
NOTES: [1] As "Tu sais beaucoup et tu apprends encore."
NOTES: [1] As "Tu sais beaucoup et tu apprends encore."
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1819–23
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
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Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796