1949.7: You Make a Mistake if You Marry Again (Lo yerras, si te bue[l]bes á casar)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.7

People

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish (Fuendetodos 1746 - 1828 Bordeaux)

Title

You Make a Mistake if You Marry Again (Lo yerras, si te bue[l]bes á casar)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: You Make a Mistake if You Seek to Get Married

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1816-1820

Culture

Spanish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297713

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on white laid paper

Dimensions

26.7 x 18.1 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/8 in.)
frame: 41.3 x 34.3 x 1.9 cm (16 1/4 x 13 1/2 x 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: bottom, graphite, in Goya's hand: Lo yeraas, si te buscas a casar
• watermark: [fragment of Honig & Zoonen]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Alfred Strölin, Paris], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, by 1927, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.7

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura Howland Dudley, "Goya at the Fogg Museum", The American Magazine of Art (July 1931), Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 19-23, p. 20
• Laura Howland Dudley, "Goya Exhibition", Notes (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, June 1931), Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 317-324, p. 321, repr. as fig. 10
• Harry B. Wehle, Fifty Drawings by Goya, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1938), p. 14, no. 49
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. II, no. 737, fig. 395
• Eleanor A. Sayre, "An Old Man Writing: A Study of Goya's Albums", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, Autumn 1958), LVI, pp. 116-136, no. 49, p. 136
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 39, repr., also repr. on front cover
• Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Drawing with Ink: History and Modern Techniques, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. (New York, 1970), p. 17, repr.
• Pierre Gassier, "Une source inédite de dessins de Goya en France au XIXe siècle", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1972), vol. 80, pp. 109-120
• Goya, 1746-1828: Peintures, Dessins, Gravures, exh. cat., Centre Culturel de Marais (Paris, 1979), cat. no. 171, repr. as fig. 164
• Juliet Wilson-Bareau and Tom Lubbock, Goya: Drawings from his Private Albums, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery (London, 2001), cat. no. 85, p. 193, repr. pl. 85
• Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, Frederick Ilchman, and Janis A. Tomlinson, Goya: Order & Disorder, exh. cat., ed. Jennifer Snodgrass and Fronia W. Simpson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2014), pp. 21, 77, 146, fig 81
• Kate Edmondson, Mark McDonald, Edward Payne, and Reva Wolf, Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album, exh. cat., ed. Juliet Wilson-Bareau and Stephanie Buck, Paul Holberton Publishing (London, 2015), cat. no. 18, p. 112, fig. 66
• José Manuel Matilla and Manuela Mena Marqués, Goya: Drawings: Only My Strength of Will Remains, exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, 2019), pp. 41, 364, cat. no. 249, repr. p. 364

Exhibition History

• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Goya 1746-1828: peintures - dessins - gravures, Centre Culturel de Marais, Paris, 02/08/1979 - 07/03/1979
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• Goya: Drawings from his Private Albums, Hayward Gallery, London, 02/22/2001 - 05/13/2001
• Goya: Order and Disorder, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/12/2014 - 01/19/2015
• Goya: Drawings: Only My Strength of Will Remains, Museo Nacional del Prado, 11/20/2019 - 02/16/2020

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