Francisco Goya
Friar Pedro Binds El Maragato with a Rope
29.2 x 38.5 cmOil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Mr and Mrs Martin A Ryerson Collection
Provenance
One of a series of six small paintings in an inventory of Goya’s collection, Madrid, taken in 1812 for the division of property between the artist and his son Javier following the death of the artist’s wife
the group of small paintings marked X8 being allotted to the son: “Seis quadros del Maragato señalados con el número ocho, en 700 [reales]” (the inventory mark has been removed from the painting and is no longer visible)
presumably Javier Goya after 1812. Lafitte collection, Madrid
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 March 1861, bought in together with other paintings from the series for 590 francs
Julius Böhler, Munich by 1911
sold to Martin Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago in May 1911
bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933
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Other works by Francisco Goya
The Duchess of Alba and 'La Beata'
Maria Luisa in a Mantilla
1799
1799
Young Woman with a Fan
1806-07
1806-07
Judith and Holofernes
1824-25
1824-25
Interior of a Prison (The Castillo Crime II)