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The Skaters, Sheet 30 from the Sepia Album (Journal-Album F)
Ice Skaters, from Album F (Images of Spain Album), 30
The Skaters, Sheet 30 from the Sepia Album (Journal-Album F)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1812–20
Medium/Technique
Brush and iron gall ink with wash over a few red and black crayon sketch lines on cream laid paper; scraping; full pink paper mount
Dimensions
Sheet and mount: 20.7 x 14.3cm (8 1/8 x 5 5/8in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund and Gift of Mrs. Thomas B. Card
Accession Number61.166
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 1456; Gassier I, 301
Marks
Lower left corner: collector’s stamp of E. Calando (Lugt 837)
InscriptionsUpper center in iron gall ink: 47.( by Madrazo,Album II); upper right in iron gall ink: 30 [and partial] 4 [residual]; ; L.r. corner in brown ink wash: 60 or GOY [?] (not typical signature) ; Verso: inscribed in graphite: 79 / les patineurs [in another hand]
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; Paris; April 3, 1877, Paul Lebas (probably acting on behalf of Madrazo) sale, "105 Dessins par Francisco Goya," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 29 (as "Les Patineurs"), to Baron Maurice Alfred Martin de Beurnonville (b. 1826–d. 1895) for fr. 100; February 16–19, 1885, Beurnonville sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, part of lot 49, to Émile Louis Dominique Calando (b. 1840–d. 1898), Paris. 1961, sold by César Mange de Hauke (dealer, b. 1900–d. 1965), Paris, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1961)