Sketch after Goya's "Caprichos" | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1979.110
People: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title: Sketch after Goya's "Caprichos"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1824
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/295291

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Brown ink on off-white laid paper, laid down
Dimensions: 22.1 x 18 cm (8 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Louis Dimier (1865-1943) (Lugt 1721c), Paris, sold; through his sale [December 15, 1921, lot 31 as by Goya]. Léon Voillemot (1881-1949) (Lugt 789d), Paris. [1] Alfred Strölin, Paris], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979

Notes
[1] There was no public sale following Voillemot's sale but he did sell a number of works during a period of illness.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year: 1979
Object Number: 1979.110
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Dessins, Anciens et Modernes: Collection de M. Louis Dimier, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, December 15, 1921), p. 17, lot 31 [as by Goya], repr.
David P. Becker, Drawings for Book Illustration: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., Houghton Library (Cambridge, 1980), under no. 22, p. 38
Eugene Delacroix: Themen und Variationen, Arbeiten auf Papier, exh. cat., Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut (Frankfurt, 1987), p. 6, cat. no. A2
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 104, repr.
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY and London, England, 2003), cat. no. 117, fig. 6.8, p. 167
[Reproduction only], From Enlightenment to Romanticism, c. 1780-1830: Illustrations Book, Blocks 4-7, The Open University (Milton Keynes, England, 2004)., plate 32.26
Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Delacroix, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2018), cat. no. 11, repr. p. 54

Exhibition History

Delacroix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/17/2018 - 01/06/2019

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1979.110: Sketch after Goya's "Caprichos"