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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746–1828
Autumn
1786
In 1786, Goya was commissioned to design tapestries to decorate the dining room in Madrid’s El Pardo palace. The king specifically requested “pleasant, light-hearted subjects,” and this painting, a sketch for one of the tapestries, was presented for his approval. A child reaches for a bunch of grapes that a young man in a stylish yellow suit offers to a lady dressed in black. Behind them, a servant balances a basket of grapes on her head—she personifies Autumn, the season of plentiful harvests.
Image Caption
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Autumn, 1786, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.749
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
13 3/8 x 9 9/16 in. (34 x 24.3 cm)
Frame: 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (41.3 x 31.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.749
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Watt, Alexander. "Notes from Paris". vol. 29. Apollo. Jan. 1939.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven, Supplement: West Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. r. f. c.. "Nuovo opere alla Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute.". vol. 81, no. 781.. Emporium.. Jan. 1960.:pp. 39-40.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Gudiol, Josép. Goya, 1746-1848: Biography, Analytical Study and Catalogue of his Paintings. 4 vols. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1971. Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson. Goya: His Life and Work, with Catalogue Raisonné. Eng., French, German editions.. London: Thames & Hudson.. 1971. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Rita de Angelis.. L'opera completa di Francisco Goya. Classici dell'Arte no. 74.. Milan: Rizzoli.. 1974.. Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Goya and the Art of His Time. Dec. 7, 1982-Feb. 6, 1983. (Cat. by Edward J. Sullivan). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Edward J. Sullivan.. article on Goya.. Washington Opera Magazine.. Fall/Winter 1986.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Museo del Prado, Madrid.. Goya: Truth and Fantasy: The Small Paintings. Nov. 19, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994; Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 18-June 12, 1994; Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-Oct. 16, 1994. (Cat. by Juliet Wilson-Boreau and Manuela B. Mena Marques). Réunion des Musées Nationaux.. Goya: Un Regard Libre. Lille (France): Palais de Beaux-Arts. Dec. 11, 1998-March 14, 1999. Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 17-July 11, 1999. Cat. by Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnee. Tomlinson , Janis A., ed. Goya: Images of Women. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2002. Tinterow, Gary and Geneviève Lacambre. Manet/Valázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Exhibition catalogue. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2003. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
The artist, sold to Alcántara, 1798; Pedro and María Josefa de Alcántara, 9th Duke and Duchess of Osuna, La Alameda, Madrid (from 1798); Baron Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier, Madrid and Versailles (probably by 1800; d. 1826); Baron [René?] Alquier, Nantes, by descent (from 1826); Alquier family, Nantes, by descent, sold to Knoedler, probably in 1939; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 1 Mar. 1939]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.