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Francisco Goya

Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get about on Their Own in Bordeaux), 1824/1827

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Medium

black chalk on greenish laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 19.4 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1993.51.9

Artists / Makers

Francisco Goya (artist) Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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Inscription

upper right in black chalk: 29; across bottom in black chalk: Mendigos qe. selleban solos en Bordeaux; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Goya

Provenance

Javier Goya y Bayeu (1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (1854); Federico de Madrazo (c. 1855-1860); Jules Boilly, Paris (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 March 1869, lot 48, an album of 20 drawings, to Leurceau); Hyadès, Bordeaux; private collection, Paris; Alfred Strölin, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1933; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, June 1987; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Boilly, Jules
Drouot, Hôtel
Goya, Javier
Goya, Mariano
Hyadès
Leurceau
Madrazo, Federico de
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Strölin, Alfred
Strölin, Jacqueline
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1980: Goya in der Krise seiner Zeit, Württembergerischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Kustverein Munich, 1980-1981, no. 214, repro.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, (hors de catalogue).

1988: Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment, Museo del Prado, Madrid and tour, 1988-1989, no. 167 (Boston and New York only), repro.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 143, repro.

1993: Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993 (checklist only).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 99, as Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get about on Their Own in Bordeaux), repro.

2001: Goya, Drawings from His Private Albums, Hayward Gallery, London, 2001, no. 98, repro.

2006: Goya's Last Works, The Frick Collection, New York, 2006, no. 31, repro.

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

2014: Goya: Order & Disorder, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014-2015, no. 212, repro.

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

Bibliography

1933: Mayer, August L. "Dibujos Desconocidos, de Goya" Revista Española de Arte. (September 1933): repro. 382, 384.

1934: Mayer, August L. "Some Unknown Drawings by Francisco Goya." Old Master Drawings 34 (1934): 21.

1971: Gassier, Pierre and Juliet Wilson. The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya. New York, 1971: no. G.29.

1973: Gassier, Pierre. Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973: no. G.29 [387].

1994: Tomlinson, Janis. Francisco Goya y Lucientes. London, 1994: 268, repr. 270.

2003: Hughes, Robert. Goya. New York, 2003: 397, repro.

2006: Brown, Jonathan and Susan G. Galassi. Goya's Last Works. New York, 2006: 186, fig. 31.