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    MASTERPIECES
    IN COLOUR
    EDITED BY--
    M. HENRY ROUJON

    GOYA

    (1746-1826)


    _IN THE SAME SERIES_

    REYNOLDS
    VELASQUEZ
    GREUZE
    TURNER
    BOTTICELLI
    ROMNEY
    REMBRANDT
    BELLINI
    FRA ANGELICO
    ROSSETTI
    RAPHAEL
    LEIGHTON
    HOLMAN HUNT
    TITIAN
    MILLAIS
    LUINI
    FRANZ HALS
    CARLO DOLCI
    GAINSBOROUGH
    TINTORETTO
    VAN DYCK
    DA VINCI
    WHISTLER
    RUBENS
    BOUCHER
    HOLBEIN
    BURNE-JONES
    LE BRUN
    CHARDIN
    MILLET
    RAEBURN
    SARGENT
    CONSTABLE
    MEMLING
    FRAGONARD
    DUeRER
    LAWRENCE
    HOGARTH
    WATTEAU
    MURILLO
    WATTS
    INGRES
    COROT
    DELACROIX
    FRA LIPPO LIPPI
    PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
    MEISSONIER
    GEROME
    VERONESE
    VAN EYCK
    FROMENTIN
    MANTEGNA
    PERUGINO
    ROSA BONHEUR
    BASTIEN-LEPAGE
    GOYA


    [Illustration: PLATE I.--FERDINAND GUILLEMARDET

    (Museum of the Louvre)

    This personage, who has left no record in history, was one of
    those high functionaries, half civil and half military, whom the
    First Republic sent to its armies to supervise the commissary
    department and also to exercise an espionage over its generals.
    Goya has given a vigorous rendering of a head that bears the
    double stamp of energy and high breeding; and the prevailing
    gray tone of this portrait, relieved only by the one dash of
    brightness in the tricoloured scarf, forms altogether a work of
    perfect harmony.]




    GOYA

    BY FR. CRASTRE


    TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
    BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER

    ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
    REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

    [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.]

    FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
    NEW YORK--PUBLISHERS


    COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
    FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

    March, 1914

    THE. PLIMPTON. PRESS
    NORWOOD. MASS. U. S. A




    CONTENTS


                             Page

    The Youth of Goya          21

    The Glorious Period        48

    The Closing Years          77




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


    Plate

       I. Ferdinand Guillemardet               Frontispiece
             Museum of the Louvre

      II. La Maja Clothed                                14
             Museum of the Prado, Madrid

     III. The Woman with the Fan                         24
             Museum of the Louvre

      IV. Portrait of Goya                               34
             Museum of the Prado, Madrid

       V. The Duchess of Alba                            40
             Collection of the Duke of Alba, Madrid

      VI. King Charles IV and his Family                 50
             Museum of the Prado, Madrid

     VII. La Tirana                                      60
             Museum of the Prado, Madrid

    VIII. Josefa Bayeu                                   70
             Museum of the Prado, Madrid


On a certain clear morning in the year 1760, a monk from the convent
of Santa Fe, near Saragossa, was proceeding leisurely along the road
which leads to that city, and reciting his breviary as he went.
Raising his eyes from between two psalms, he perceived a young lad of
some fifteen years of age deeply absorbed in drawing pictures with a
bit of charcoal on one of the walls which bounded the way. The monk
was a lover of the arts and had himself some little skill in drawing.
Becoming interested, he drew nearer, and was amazed at the aptitude
shown by the boy. Upon questioning him, he was much pleased with his
replies and was completely won by his engaging manners. Without
further reflection, he inquired the way to the home of the lad's
parents, poor peasants of the immediate neighbourhood, and had no
difficulty in persuading them to entrust their son to him, promising
to make him a painter of whom they would some day be proud.

History has not preserved the name of the worthy monk so kindly
disposed to art, but the boy was destined to make his own name
illustrious: Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes, the poor son of farming
folk of Saragossa, fulfilled the