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Boy on a Ram
Provenance
Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara, 1786/87 (painted as a cartoon for a series of tapestries executed there for Rey Carlos III for the palacio at El Pardo, outside Madrid); Livinio Stuyk y Vandergoten, by 1887 (director of the Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara); by descent to his son, Gabino Stuyk, Madrid, by 1900. Real Fábrica de Tapices, Madrid, by 1911 [this and the following according to a letter from March 19, 1991, from Melissa de Medeiros, Knoedler and Company, to Mary Kuzniar; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Knoedler and Company, London and New York, September 1911; sold to Charles Deering (died 1927), April 1912; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, Chicago; by descent to her son, Brooks McCormick, Chicago; given by Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McCormick to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
Exhibition history
Leningrad (St. Petersburg), State Hermitage Museum, Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth–XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA, October 17-November 30, 1989 Stockholm Sweden, National Museum, Goya Retrospective, November 4, 1994-January 8, 1995 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 250th Anniversary of Goya's Birth, March 29-May 30, 1996. Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Goya. Un regard libre, December 12, 1998-March 14, 1999, cat. 14; Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 17-July 11, 1999 [Philadelphia only]. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: The Wound of Time, November 17, 2006-March 28, 2007. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Goya: Visiting Masterpiece, September 16, 2019-September 7, 2020, no cat.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
- Date
- 1786–87
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 127.2 × 112.1 cm (50 1/16 × 44 1/8 in.); Framed: 153.7 × 138.4 × 12.7 cm (60 1/2 × 54 1/2 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Spain
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1979.479
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001510
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