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Series Title: Madrid Album "B"

Young Woman (possibly a Sex Worker) with a Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso)

1796–97
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Culture
Spain
Measurements
Image: 18.7 x 12 cm (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 23.5 x 14.5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Catalogue raisonné
Gassier & Wilson 413 (recto) and 414 (verso); Gassier B.49 (recto) and B.50 (verso)
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Much of Francisco de Goya's graphic output of drawings and prints was not made public until well after his death.

Description

Among the great figures of the pictorial arts in the West, Francisco de Goya is one of the very few whose work as a graphic artist is arguably even more important than his paintings. Alongside a prodigious output of prints, he created eight sketchbooks of drawings over the course of 30 years. This double-sided sheet comes from the so-called Album B, or Madrid Album, which, like all of them, was scattered throughout the world in public and private collections after his death. The drawings reveal Goya’s powers of invention and observation, and his biting satire. On the recto side of the sheet, a vulgar encounter between a prostitute and a pot-bellied lecher reveals the bluntness of the Goya’s social criticism. The verso drawing is less easily pinned down, though it follows traditional iconography for representations of Saint Margaret of Cortona, a nobleman’s mistress who repented and entered a convent after her lover’s dog led her to his murdered corpse.
Two vertically oriented drawings in gray shades depict people standing. The drawing on the left depicts a woman, left, standing close to a man, right. The woman rests her left hand on the man's right shoulder. The drawing on the right depicts a woman standing in front of a man's lifeless body that is lying behind her. Her hands are clasped near her face and a small dog on our bottom right pulls on her dress.

Young Woman (possibly a Sex Worker) with a Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso)

1796–97

Francisco de Goya

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Spain

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