Masquerading Asses

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)  (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

Date:
1796–97
Medium:
Brush with gray and black wash (indian ink), touched with pen and irongall ink on laid Netherlandish paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. (23.5 x 14.61cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number:
35.103.17
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed with pen and irongall ink, above and below the image: "Conocélos el aceitero y dice Ola? y empieza / a palos con las mascaras / / ellos huyendo, claman la injusticia del poco respeto / a su representacion." (The oil vendor recognizes them and cries "Hey!" and begins to beat the masqueraders; fleeing, they protest the injustice of such disrespect for their performance); brush and gray wah, upper right: 93; pen and ink, upper right: 17

  • Provenance

    Javier Goya y Bayeu (Spanish)(1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (Spanish)(1854); Federico de Madrazo y Küntz (Spanish, Rome 1815–1894 Madrid)(ca. 1855-60); Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Venice, 1894–1935)(1894)

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gassier/Wilson 449; Gassier B93 [94]; Mayor 21

  • References

    An Exhibition of the Work of Goya Exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1935, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Goya Exhibition, 1935, also Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1936.

    An Exhibition of the Work of Goya Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1936. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1936, Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of Goya, 1936, also Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1935.

    Harry B. Wehle "An Album of Goya's Drawings". 31, New York, February 1936, (incl. bibliography), pp. 23-28.

    Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya" MMA Papers no. 7. M.M.A. Papers no. 7. New York, 1938.

    Goya: Drawings and Prints Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955. . New York, 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue supplement, no. 205., fig. no. no. 205.

    Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and Listed) ; p. 162 (mentioned)., fig. no. fig. 449, part II, p. 176.

    Pierre Gassier Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973, ill. plate B. 93, p. 121, fig. no. no. 94, p. 136.

    A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings Exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, no. 21, repr., fig. no. no. 21.

    Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Eleanor Sayre Goya y espíritu de la ilustración Spanish edition of exhibition catalogue: Madrid-Boston-New York, 1988. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Spanish. Spain, 1988, Spanish edition of exhibition catalogue: 1988 Madrid-Boston-New York (Drawing not exhibited in Madrid; see Exhibition card) pp. 204-205, no. 37, repr. (recto on p. 205)., fig. no. no. 37, pp. 204-205.

    Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1995.

    Juliet Wilson, Tom Lubbock Goya: Drawings From His Private Albums. Hayward Gallery, London, London, 2001, cat. no. 37, p. 179, ill.



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