La madre Celestina (Mother Celestina); Sheet 22 from Album D (Witches and Old Women Album)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1819–23
Medium/TechniqueBrush and carbon black ink with wash on blued [smalt] white laid paper; pink paper remnants on verso
DimensionsSheet: 23. x 14.5 cm (9 3/16 x 5 11/16 in. )
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number59.200
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsUpper center in iron gall (brown) ink: 22, in carbon black ink: 29 (by Madrazo, Album II).; lower left: collector’s stamp of E. Calando (Lugt 837); lower center in black crayon: La madre CelestinaProvenance1828, by inheritance from the artist to his son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (b. 1784–d. 1854), Madrid; 1854, 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, Madrazo (under the name of Paul Lebas) sale, "105 Dessins par Francisco Goya," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 28 (La Mère Célestine), to Émile Louis Dominique Calando (b. 1840–d. 1898), Paris, for fr. 15; December 11–12, 1899, Calando sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 75 (3 drawings), for fr. 215, to “Auger” (pseudonym for Émile Pierre Victor Calando, (b. 1872–d. 1953), Paris and Grasse, the seller’s son). Tony Mayer (b. 1902–d. 1997), London and Menerbes, France; December 3, 1957, Mayer sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 4. Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; March 12, 1959, sold by Zinser to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 12, 1959)
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