Boy Staring at an Apparition
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1824–25
Medium/TechniqueCarbon black wash, with watercolor and scratching, on ivory (Black wash, heightened with vermilion and brown)
DimensionsOverall: 5.9 x 6 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession number1992.326
On View
Not on viewClassificationsWatercolors
Collections
ProvenancePrivate collection, France, sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 February 1937, lot 56, no. 4; Private collection, England, by 1970; Eleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; gift , June 24, 1992
![[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)](/internal/media/dispatcher/1044175/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1814-19
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
![Bearded Woman With Child. Esta Muger fue retratada en Napoles por José Ribera o el Españoleto, por los años de 1640 (This Woman Was Painted in Naples by Jusepe Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto, about the year 1640).
Album E (Black Border Album), number indecipherable [7 ?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/1029457/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
![It is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (Es herano y a la luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan / al tiento)
[Three Figures Seated at an Open Window]
Double-sided drawing in Album B (Madrid Sketchbook) No. 85;, on verso B 86 :"Buen Sacerdote..." (Good Priest....)](/internal/media/dispatcher/1029460/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1819–23
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
![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)](/internal/media/dispatcher/828414/thumbnail)