- Cronología
- 1824 - 1825
- Ubicación
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, United States
- Dimensiones
- 9 x 9.5 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Watercolor on ivory
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Undisputed work
- Titular
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 16 May 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- Bequest of Pame
See Maja and Celestina.
This work was put up for auction at the Hôtel Drouot auction house, Paris, on 22 February 1937 (lot 56-1). It was later in the collection of Thomas Harris, in London. In around 1941 it was in the Durlacher Bros. collection in New York, later entering the collection of R. Kirk Jr. and Pamela Askew, also in New York. It was bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on 24 June 1998.
For the artistic and technical analysis of the complete series, see Maja and Celestina.
In this romantic miniature we see the figure of a woman, seen from behind, wrapped in a blue dress and a black cape. She appears to be on high ground, indicated by the wide sky, which occupies almost all of the background, leaving less than a third of it to the terrain seen in the distance. The wind is blowing her clothes and hair, and is lifting up her skirt just enough to show us her bare foot.
The woman's face is only just suggested behind her head of hair. There was probably another composition underlying this one, since we know that Goya reused some of the ivory plaques in order to save on the precious material.
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970pp. 357, 362, cat. 1690 y p.342 (il.)
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, p. 386, cat. 742
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974p. 136, cat. 682
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