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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

canvas: 41? by 32? in.; 105.6 by 83.3 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

Property from the CINTAS Foundation, Sold Without Reserve

Condition:

framed: 50½ by 41½ in.; 128.3 by 105.4 cm. The canvas has been relined and is in stable condition. The paint surface is well-preserved under an even, fresh varnish, and the colors remain vibrant . Very little restoration is evident under ultraviolet light, though there is some strengthening in the curtain upper right and a handful of scattered restorations otherwise. None of these are remarkable or visible to the naked eye, and the painting remains in quite good condition. Offered in a carved giltwood frame.

Literature:

Catalogo de las pinturas existentes en el Palacio de Boadilla del Monte, no. 97 (as Goya); C. Iriate, Goya, sa biographie, les fresques, les toiles, les tapissieres, les eaux-fortes et le Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Paris 1867, p. 138; Conde de la Vinaza, Goya. Su tiempo, su vida, sus obras, Madrid 1887, p. 230; Z. Araujo Sanchez, Goya, Madrid 1896, cat. no. 168; V. von Loga, Francisco de Goya, Berlin 1903, cat. no. 273 (as Goya); A.F. Calvert, Goya, London 1908, p. 138, cat. no. 196, reproduced plate 74 (as Goya); A. de Beruete y Moret, Goya, pintor de retratos, Madrid 1916, p. 173, cat. no. 104 (as Goya); A. de Beruete y Moret, Goya as portrait painter, translated from Spanish by S. Brinton, London 1922, pp. 35-36, 207, cat. no. 111 (as Goya); A. L. Mayer, Francisco de Goya, Munich 1923, p. 196, cat. no. 340 (as Goya); X. Desparmet Fitz-Gerald, L'oeuvre peinte de Goya, Paris 1928-50, cat. no. 306; J. Gudiol, Goya, Barcelona 1970, vol. I, p. 252, cat. no. 170, reproduced vol. II, fig. 266 (as Goya); P. Gassier and J. Wilson, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, New York 1971, p. 78, cat. no. 218, reproduced p. 94 (as Goya, circa 1784-85); R. de Angelis, L'opera pittorica completa di Goya, Milan 1974, p. 100, cat. no. 174 (as Goya); X. de Salas, Goya, London 1977 and New York 1981, p. 177, cat. no. 153, reproduced (as Goya); J.L. Morales y Marin, Goya. Catalogo de la Pintura, Zaragoza 1997, pp. 182-3, cat. no. 136, reproduced (as Goya).

Provenance:

The sitter; By whom gifted to Manuel Godoy y A?lvarez de Faria, Principe de la Paz (1767-1851), Madrid; TThence by descent to his daughter, Carlota Luisa de Godoy y Borbo?n, Condesa de Chincho?n (1800 - 1886), Palacio de Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, until at least 1867 (listed in the inventory, no. 97); heD. Marinao Hernando, Madrid, by 1900 and until at least 1908; Luis de Navas, Madrid; With Colnaghi, London; With Knoedler & Co., London, 1921 (stock # 12877); With John Levy Galleries, New York (acquired from above, September 1928); Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), Havana and New York, by 1941; Bequeathed in 1957 to the CINTAS Foundation, Miami.