ID 1362521
Lot 202 | SPANISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
A young man, bust-length, traditionally identified as the bull-fighter Pepe Illo, wearing a redecilla
oil on canvas
25 ¼ x 20 in. (64.2 x 50.9 cm.)
Provenance
George Villiers (1800-1870), 4th Earl of Clarendon, by whom purchased when Ambassador in Madrid 1833-1839, and by descent to,
Edward Villiers (1846-1914), 5th Earl of Clarendon; Christie's, 15 May 1908, lot 108, as F. J. Goya, a Portrait of Pepe Illo (to Colnaghi and Co.).
Sir George Alexander Drummond (1892-1910), Montreal; his sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 1919, lot 177, as F. Goya, a Portrait of Pepe Illo, to Gooden & Fox, presumably on behalf of the following,
William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), 1st Viscount Leverhulme; his deceased sale, New York, 17 February 1926, lot 117, as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, a Portrait of Pepe Illo.
with Galerie Trottie & Cie, Paris, where acquired by the following,
with Knoedler & Co., New York, as F. Goya, a Portrait of a Boy, where acquired in 1928 by,
Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975), New York, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Mayer, Francisco de Goya, R. West (trans.), London, 1924, p. 159, no. 322, as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, The Bull-fighter, Pepe Illo.
'English Paintings Exhibited for Sale: Leverhulme Collection of 296 Will be Sold at Anderson's Three Evenings this Week. Mostly of 18th Century, Goya's Pepe Illo, Seven "Old" Cromes and Four Gainsboroughs Included in Auction', The New York Times, 15 February 1926, LXXV, issue no. 24859, p. 9, as Goya, a Portrait of Pepe Illo.
'Gov. Fuller Pays $31,000 for Painting, Massachusetts Executive Buys Millais's "Caller Herring" at Leverhulme sale. $25,000 for Goya Portrait, Second Session of Auction brings $149,465 - Americans Get Most of Pictures', The New York Times, 19 February 1926, LXXV, issue no. 24863, p. 24, as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, a Portrait of Pepe Illo.
'Art: Leverhulme Sale', Time: The Weekly News-Magazine, 8 March 1926, VII, unpaginated, as Goya, Portrait of Pepe Illo.
N. Glendinning, ‘Goya and England in the Nineteenth Century’, The Burlington Magazine, CVI, 1964, p. 11, note 27, as recorded in the Clarendon inventories as Goya, Famous Matador Pepe Illo.
Exhibited
Boston, The Copley Society, Spanish Masters, 1912, no. 73, as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, ‘Pepe Illo’ Bull-Fighter.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Spanish Paintings from El Greco to Goya, 17 February-1 April 1928, no. 18, as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Pepe Illo, dated 1739-1789.
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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