LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a pair, both oil on canvas

Size Notes:

each

Literature:

Marqués de Saltillo, Miscelánea madrileña, histórica y artística. Primera serie, Goya en Madrid; su familia y allegados (1746-1856), Madrid 1952, p. 73; J.L. Morales y Marin, Los Bayeu, Zaragoza 1979, no. 159 (the Adoration of the Magi only); J.L. Morales y Marin, Francisco Bayeu. Vida y Obra, Zaragoza 1995, p. 124, nos. 198 & 199, both reproduced, the latter also in colour p. 42.

Provenance:

Commissioned by King Charles IV in 1791 for the Oratorio del Rey del Palacio Real de Aranjuez; Acquired immediately after the artist's death in 1795 by Leonardo Chopinot (each for 1,100 reales); The former chosen by the court painter Jacinto Gómez for the collection of Don Manuel Godoy, Duque de Alcudia (as specified in the will of Angel Sulpice de Chopinot); Both believed to have been acquired by the grandfather of their previous owner directly from a descendant of Chopinot.