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Singing and dancing (Cantar y Bailar)

Maker

(Artists)
1746-1828

Title

Date of Production

1819 - 1820

Medium

brush and grey wash on laid paper [no evidence of scraping - no disturbed fibres under microscope]

Dimensions

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.256

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

An old crone is shown floating in the air, strumming a guitar and singing with a wide-open mouth, while another woman sits on the ground, holding her nose and gazing up her companion’s skirts. The spoon and bowl at lower left imply that the singing woman’s levitation is caused by magic. Goya filled several of his private albums later in his career with imaginative inventions, ranging from the sinister to the ironic. This drawing comes from a group now known as the Witches and Old Women Album.

Provenance

by descent to the artist's son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (1784-1854); by descent to the artist's grandson, Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (1806-1874); Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815-1894), c. 1855-60; presumably his sale (Paul Lebas as consignor), Drouot (Paris), 3 April 1877, lot 22 as 'Chanteuse et Danseuse'; purchased there by Émile Calando, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (Paris), 11-12 December 1899, lot 75 (with 2 other drawings), L.837 (lower left); purchased there (via Auger) by the collector's son, Émile Pierre Calando, Paris and Grasse (d. 1953); Galerie de Bayser (Paris), 1953; Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris), 1953; purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 3 March 1953 (540,000 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Goya : The Witches and Old Women Album, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/02/2015-26/05/2015

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012 ...More

The Spanish Line - From Ribera to Picasso, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/10/2011-15/01/2012

Goya: drawings from his private albums, Hayward Gallery, London, 22/02/2001-13/05/2001

Goya and his Times, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963-64 ...Less

Literature

Lucie-Smith, Edward, Goya: Between Two Worlds, London: Cv/Visual Arts Research Series 208, 2015.
pp. 6-7
ill. on p. 19

Goya : The Witches and Old Women Album, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2015
cat. no. 3
no. 3 on pp. 74 and 84
ill. on p. 85

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 46
ill. on p. 211 ...More

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
cat. no. 103
ill. on p. 281

Luke, Ben, 'Lines of vision' in 'RA Magazine', Autumn 2011; no. 112
ill.

Goya: drawings from his private albums, Hayward Gallery, London, 2001
pp. 137 and 194, no. 87

Lorenzo de Márquez, Teresa, ‘Carnival traditions in Goya’s iconic language’ in ‘Goya y el espíritu de la Illustración / Goya and the spirit of Englightenment’, exhibition at Museo del Prado, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-89 - pp. lxxxv-xciv (Spanish edn, 1988, pp. 99-109)
p. 297 under no. 133

Gassier, Pierre, The drawings of Goya: the complete albums, London (French translation in Fribourg) 1973
no. 97 (D.3) on p. 161
ill. on p. 144

Gassier, Pierre, ‘Une source inedité de dessins de Goya en France au XIXe siècle’ in ‘Gazette des Beaux-Arts’, 1972 - pp. 109-20; 80
p. 112

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 256
based on RA exhibition now dated c. 1814-19

Gassier, Pierre and Juliet Wilson, Vie et œuvre de Francisco Goya, Paris 1970
added to PRA task list 01.08.2022

Goya and his Times, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963-1964
cat. no. 166
pl. 50
dated c. 1814-19

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 256
pl. LXXXII
dated c. 1800-23 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink, number associated with the drawing’s sequence in the Madrazo album: “23”; below, that in light brown ink, artist's hand (presumed to relate to the original sequence in his album, see 2012 exh. cat. p. 212n1): “3”; lower centre, black chalk, titled by the artist: “Cantar y baílar”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Émile Calando the elder (L.837).

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