Be Careful with that Step!

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Be Careful with that Step!

Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53

Date
1816/1820
Medium
Brush with black ink and gray and black wash on ivory laid paper
Culture
Spain
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
109300

Francisco Goya seems never to have compromised his intense feelings for humanity or his acute vision of man's vanities and vices. Dating from about 1805, Be Careful with that Step! ,part of a series illustrating the follies of the young and the old, shows a girl dancing with abandon. With an astonishing economy of means (a few simple strokes of his fine-pointed brush) Goya succeeded not only in describing the materials of the girl's dress but also in capturing her quick, lively movements.

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Helen Regenstein Collection
Provenance
Probably by descent to the artist's son, Javier Goya, Madrid [according to Sayre 1958]. Mariano Goya, Madrid [according to Joachim 1979]. Valentin Carderera, Madrid (?) [according to Joachim 1979]. Paul Lebas, Paris. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 3, 1877, lot 95, to Paul Meurice (died 1905), Paris [according to Gassier 1973]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 25, 1906, lot 92. Sold, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, April 9, 1957, Anonymous sale, lot 6. Sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, to the Art Institute, 1957.

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