Portrait of a young girl, half length, holding sheet music

Details

CIRCLE OF FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (FUENDETODOS 1746-1828 BORDEAUX)
Portrait of a young girl, half length, holding sheet music
oil on canvas
17 ¼ x 12 ¼ in. (43.7 x 31.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Marie Sterner Galleries, New York.
Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, née Joan Whitney (1903-1975), New York.
with Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York.
Frank Buttram (1886-1966), Oklahoma City.
Bilbias Collection, Spain.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 183, as Attributed to Goya, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

J. Gudiol, Goya, 1970, I, III, p. 290, no. 457, illus. fig. 730, as Goya.

Exhibited

Mexico City, Francisco de Goya: Único y Eterno. Museo Nacional de San Carlos, 2016-2017, as Goya.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

José Gudiol, who published the painting in 1970 as by Goya, considered the portrait to be typical of the artist's society portraits around 1800. The last time the picture was offered at auction in 1990, the sale catalogue noted that an attribution to Agustín Esteve y Marqués had also been proposed.

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