Two Boys Looking at a Book (Dos niños mirando un libro)

Datos Generales

Cronología: 1824 - 1825
Ubicación: Museum of Art - Rhode Island of Design, Providence, United States
Dimensiones: 5.2 x 5.3 cm
Técnica y soporte: Watercolor on ivory

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Undisputed work
Titular: Museum of Art - Rhode Island of Design
Ficha: realización/revisión: 16 May 2010 / 15 Jun 2023

Historia

This work belonged to the collection of Edward Habich, in Cassel. It was put on sale in Stuttgart between 27 and 28 April 1899 and was acquired by Gustav Radeke. It later entered the collection of the institute that houses it today.

Análisis artístico

For the artistic and technical analysis of the complete series, see Maja and Celestina.

Here we see two boys, one slightly older than the other, perhaps brothers, looking at a book. Going by their expressions, it appears that their reading material is something forbidden, which they are looking at in secret. Sayre points out the resemblance between these boys and those listening attentively to the reader's voice in the lithograph Woman Reading.

Exposiciones

The changing image: prints by Francisco de Goya

Museum of Fine Arts

1974

From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975

cat. 255
Goya. El Capricho y la Invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturas

Museo Nacional del Prado

Madrid

1993

from November 18th 1993 to February 15th 1994. Exhibited also at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 18th to June 12th 1994 and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 16th to October 16th 1994, consultant editors Manuela B. Mena Marqués and Juliet Wilson-Bareau

cat. 107
Goya’s last Works

The Frick Art Collection

New York

2006

consultant editors Jonathan Brown and Susan Grace Galassi. From February 22nd to May 14th 2006

cat. 15
Goya: Order and disorder

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston

2014

cat. 55

Bibliografía

SAYRE, Eleanor

Goya’s Bordeaux miniatures, , , Boston, 1966

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Bulletin
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1966

p. 118, cat. 15
GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet

Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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ParísOffice du livre

1970

pp. 357, 362, cat. 1687
GUDIOL RICART, José
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BarcelonaPolígrafa

1970

vol. I, p. 386, cat. 749
ANGELIS, Rita de

L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
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MilanRizzoli

1974

p. 136, cat. 678
CAMÓN AZNAR, José

Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
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ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja

1980-1982

vol. IV, p. 219
MENA, Manuela B. y WILSON-BAREAU, Juliet (comisarias)

Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturas
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MadridMuseo del Prado

1993

pp. 324-325, 381, cat. 107 y p. 328 (il.
BROWN, Jonathan y GALASSI, Susan Grace

Goya’s last works
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New YorkThe Frick Collection and Yale University Press

2006

2006, p. 132, cat. 15 y p. 133 (il.)
ILCHMAN, Frederick y STEPANEK, Stephanie L. (comisarios)

Goya: Order & Disorder
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BostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications

2014

p.119
www.risdmuseum.org

Two Boys Looking at a Book (Dos niños mirando un libro)

Easel painting. Various subjects