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Two Nude Young Women on a Bed (recto of double-sided drawing from Album A (Sanlúcar Sketchbook)


Two Young Women Naked on a Bed (Album A, k (recto of l)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1793–1796

Medium/Technique Brush and carbon black ink with wash and recent opaque white overpaint on discolored blued [smalt] white laid paper; pink paper border
Dimensions Sheet: 17.2 x 10.1 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.)
Credit Line Charles Hitchcock Tyler Residuary Fund
Accession Number63.985b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Gassier & Wilson 0366; Gassier I , 11
Description
Double-sided drawing (63.985a and 63.985b)
Verso: Two Young Women, Naked on a Bed (63.985b)
Recto: Young Woman Reclining on a Bed, attended by two old women (63.985a)
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)