Francisco Goya
Sketch for Winter or The Snowstorm
31.7 x 33 cmOil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Bequest of Verde C. Graff
Provenance
One of six oil sketches as preparations for cartoons for tapestries that were to decorate the dining room of the Prince of Asturias in the royal palace of El Pardo near Madrid, 1786
the set of sketches sold by Goya to the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, La Alameda, 1798/1799
by descent, the dukes of Osuna, sold Madrid, M. Tello, 11 May 1896, nr. 74 to Dr. Cerbera, Madrid
Desparmet Fitz-Gerald, Paris, about 1910
Demotte, Paris and New York
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1941
sold to Everett D. Graff (died 1964), Winnetka, 1942
his widow, Verde C. Graff (died 1989), Winnetka
bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1990
Other works by Francisco Goya
The Flower Girls
1786-87
1786-87
Sketch for The Picnic
1788-1798
1788-1798
Sketch for The Death of St Joseph
The Baptism of Christ
The Friar's Visit (The Castillo Crime I)