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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)
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)

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)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1794–97
Medium/TechniqueBrush and carbon black ink with wash on blued [smalt] laid paper, pink paper remnants On the recto: Album B 85
DimensionsSheet: 23.7 x 14.4 cm (9 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number63.984b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsUpper left in carbon black ink: 86; lower center in iron gall (brown) ink: "Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado?" Verso: [see 63.984a] Provenance1828, by inheritance to the artist’s 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 Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, and/or Federico de Madrazo y Kunz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid; probably in 1866, given or sold by Madrazo to Scipione Vannutelli (b. 1834–d. 1894), Rome; by descent to his heirs, the Clementi-Vannutelli family. Carlo Sestieri (dealer), Rome. 1963, Colnaghi and Co., London; 1963, sold by Colnaghi and Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 5, 1963)
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....)
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....)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1794–97
[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)
[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
1814-19
La madre Celestina (Mother Celestina); Sheet 22 from Album D (Witches and Old Women Album)
La madre Celestina (Mother Celestina); Sheet 22 from Album D (Witches and Old Women Album)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1819–23
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Young Woman Reclining on a Bed, Attended by Two Old Women, Double-sided drawing from Album A (Sanlúcar Sketchbook), l (verso of k)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Two Nude Young Women on a Bed (recto of double-sided drawing from Album A (Sanlúcar Sketchbook)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
Woman Holding Up Her Dying Lover, Doouble-sided drawing from Album B (Madrid Sketchbook, 35 (recto of 36) On verso: Couple Conversing on the Paseo
Woman Holding Up Her Dying Lover,
Doouble-sided drawing from Album B (Madrid Sketchbook, 35 (recto of 36)
On verso: Couple Conversing on the Paseo
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1794–97
La resignacìon (Resignation); Sheet 33 Album E (Black Border Album 33)
La resignacìon (Resignation); Sheet 33 Album E (Black Border Album 33)
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 ?]
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 ?]
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
Couple Conversing on the Paseo (page 36, verso of double-sided drawing from the Madrid Sketchbook (Journal-Album B)
Couple Conversing on the Paseo (page 36, verso of double-sided drawing from the Madrid Sketchbook (Journal-Album B)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1794–97
Loco p.r Errar (Lunatic Because He Erred, or Lunatic To Be Fitted with Leg Irons), Sheet 44 from Album G (Bordeaux Album I)
Loco p.r Errar (Lunatic Because He Erred, or Lunatic To Be Fitted with Leg Irons), Sheet 44 from Album G (Bordeaux Album I)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1824–28
Ice Skaters, from Album F (Images of Spain Album), 30
Ice Skaters, from Album F (Images of Spain Album), 30
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1812–20
De todo sirven [se rien] (Used for Everything; All Purpose) Crossed over inscription: No se alquilan (Not for hire) Sheet 28 from a Bordeaux Album (Journal-Album G)
De todo sirven [se rien] (Used for Everything; All Purpose) Crossed over inscription: No se alquilan (Not for hire)
Sheet 28 from a Bordeaux Album (Journal-Album G)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1824–28