Couple Conversing on the Paseo (page 36, verso of double-sided drawing from the Madrid Sketchbook (Journal-Album B)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1794–97
Medium/TechniqueBrush and gray wash, touched with iron gall ink faded to brown on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 23.6 x 14.5 cm (9 5/16 x 5 11/16 in. )
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by the Frederick J. Kennedy Memorial Foundation
Accession number1973.700b
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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; April 3, 1877, Paul Lebas (probably acting on behalf of Madrazo) sale, "105 Dessins par Francisco Goya," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 69 [see note 1], to Baron Maurice Alfred Martin de Beurnonville (b. 1826–d. 1895) for fr. 50; February 16–19, 1885, Beurnonville sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 51 to Phillipe for fr. 105. Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978) Cambridge, MA; June 12, 1974, sold by Philip and Frances Hofer, through R. M. Light (dealer), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1974)
NOTES: [1] As "Conversation galante."
NOTE: Hofer’s collection of Goya works on paper was first offered to the MFA on June 13, 1973.
NOTES: [1] As "Conversation galante."
NOTE: Hofer’s collection of Goya works on paper was first offered to the MFA on June 13, 1973.
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Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1814-19
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1793–1796
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
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Album E (Black Border Album), number indecipherable [7 ?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/1029457/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1816–20
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1819–23
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[Three Figures Seated at an Open Window]
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