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Francisco Goya

Mascaras crueles (Cruel Masks) [recto], 1796/1797

Not on View

Medium

brush and black ink and gray wash with scraping on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 23.7 × 15 cm (9 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1991.182.10.a

Artists / Makers

Francisco Goya (artist) Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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Inscription

upper center in brush and gray ink: mascaras / 55; by later hand, upper center in pen and brown ink: crueles; by Javier Goya (?), upper right in pen and brown ink: 10; upper left verso in brush and gray ink: 56; by Javier Goya (?), upper right verso in pen and brown ink: 9.; lower center verso in brush and gray ink: Brujas; by later hand, lower right verso in pen and brown ink: à bolar

Provenance

Javier Goya y Bayeu (1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (1854); Federico de Madrazo and/or Román Garreta y Huerta (c. 1855-1860); Paul Lebas (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 April 1877, no. 72); purchased by Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-19 February 1885, no. 51, to Philippe); private collection, Paris; Alfred Strölin, Lausanne, by September 1933; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 21 July 1983; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Beurnonville, Etienne Martin de, Baron
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1982: Goya dans les collections Suisse, Fondation Pierre Gianalda, Martigny, 1982. nos. 13 (recto) and 14 (verso), repro.

1986: Goya: The Condesa de Chinchón and Other Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Spanish amd American Private Collections and the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986-87, (recto only) (unpaginated brochure), repro.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 106, repro.

1988: Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1988, no. 59 (verso only), repro.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 140.

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 45 (recto only), repro.

1992: Goya. La Década de Los Caprichos: Dibujos y aquafuertes, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1992, no. 59 (verso only).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 98, repro.

1999: El Libro de los Caprichos: Francisco de Goya, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1999, no. 70 (verso only).

2001: Goya, Drawings from His Private Albums, Hayward Gallery, London, 2001, no. 19, repro.

2002: Goya: Images of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, no. 78.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1954: Gassier, Pierre. "Les dessins de Goya au Musée du Louvre," La Revue des Arts 1 (1954): 32.

1971: Gassier, Pierre and Juliet Wilson. Goya: His Life and Work. London, 1971: no. 415 and 416.

1972: Gassier, Pierre. "Une source inédite de dessins de Goya en France au XIXe siècle." Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts. (1972): 114, no. 72.

1973: Gassier, Pierre. The Drawings of Goya: The Complete Albums. London, 1973: no. B.55(60) and 56(61).

1998: Heckes, Frank I. and Cathy Leahy. Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya. Victoria, 1998: 30, fig. 26.

1999: Blas, Javier, José Manuel Matilla, and José Miguel Madrano. El Libro de los Caprichos. Franciso de Goya. Madrid, 1999: 352 (verso).

2001: Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 78.