La Maja Vestida (after Goya),

ca. 1850

formerly attributed to Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746–1828; born Fuendetodos, Spain; died Bordeaux, France

The drawing was attributed to Goya when it was sold in 1942 and included a note in the sale description that it was "apparently a sketch for the famous painting of The Maja (clothed) from the Prado, Madrid." In 1956, Professor de Lalas suggested that this drawing "could be Lucas." Lucas was known to have copied Goya's paintings and some were exhibited in 2009 at Fuendetodos. The face of the figure in the Princeton drawing is similar to Lucas's Coloquio Galante and Tertulia o Salón which was dated about 1850, which helps date and attribute this sheet.

Adapted from: Lisa A. Banner, Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)

• "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 7, no. 2 (1948): p. 11., p. 11
• Lisa A. Banner, Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)., p. 5, cat. no. 2; p. 6 (illus.); p. 7 (verso illus.)