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Francisco Goya
1746-1828
A Young Man with Two Majas. Verso: A Majo Watching a Gallant Bowing to a Maja
1796-1797
Recto and verso: Black and brown ink washes.
9 1/8 x 5 11/16 inches (232 x 145 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.102
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Numbered by the artist at upper right, in brush and black wash, "39" on verso, at upper left, "40."
Watermark: Shield with diagonal bend, fragment.
Provenance:
Paul Lebas, Paris(?); sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 April 1877, lot 67; Paul Merice, Galerie les Tourettes, Basel; Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 5-9 June 1979, lot 66, repr.; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Associated names:
Lebas, Paul, former owner.
Sonnenberg, Benjamin, 1901-1978, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 171, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 29.
Gassier, Pierre. Francisco Goya, Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, nos. B 39, B 40.
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