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OLD WORLD MASTERS
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Goya had an uncanny facility for every medium,—etching, litho-
graphs, drawings, and aquatints, as well as oil-paintings. Goya spent
the year 1825 in Bordeaux and returned to Madrid, where he died in
1828.
“My only masters have been Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt,”
Goya said. Being so independent Goya left no pupils and founded
no school. He was always hostile to the academic: “Always lines
and never body,” he exclaimed when criticising his contemporaries,
“but where do we find these lines in Nature? I can only see masses
in light and masses in shadow, planes which advance or planes which
recede, reliefs or backgrounds. My eye never catches outlines or de-
tails. I do not count the hairs on the head of the man who passes
me in the street. The buttons on his coat are not the chief object to
catch my glance. My brush ought not to have better eyesight than
its master!”
PEPITO COSTA Y BONELLA.
Goya Collection of
(1746-1828'). Mrs. William Hayward.
This delightful picture, oils on canvas (33% x 41^ inches), is bril-
liant with many colors delightfully harmonized and contrasted. The
little boy, with fair hair and dark complexion, wears a green velvet
jacket with gilt braid, lace collar, white trousers, rose-colored stock-
ings, light-yellow slippers, and red and white plumes in his dark hat.
The drum is blue.
The picture comes from the Collection of the Countess Uda de
Gandomar of Madrid.
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Goya had an uncanny facility for every medium,—etching, litho-
graphs, drawings, and aquatints, as well as oil-paintings. Goya spent
the year 1825 in Bordeaux and returned to Madrid, where he died in
1828.
“My only masters have been Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt,”
Goya said. Being so independent Goya left no pupils and founded
no school. He was always hostile to the academic: “Always lines
and never body,” he exclaimed when criticising his contemporaries,
“but where do we find these lines in Nature? I can only see masses
in light and masses in shadow, planes which advance or planes which
recede, reliefs or backgrounds. My eye never catches outlines or de-
tails. I do not count the hairs on the head of the man who passes
me in the street. The buttons on his coat are not the chief object to
catch my glance. My brush ought not to have better eyesight than
its master!”
PEPITO COSTA Y BONELLA.
Goya Collection of
(1746-1828'). Mrs. William Hayward.
This delightful picture, oils on canvas (33% x 41^ inches), is bril-
liant with many colors delightfully harmonized and contrasted. The
little boy, with fair hair and dark complexion, wears a green velvet
jacket with gilt braid, lace collar, white trousers, rose-colored stock-
ings, light-yellow slippers, and red and white plumes in his dark hat.
The drum is blue.
The picture comes from the Collection of the Countess Uda de
Gandomar of Madrid.