As with several drawings from Album B, the same figure appears on both sides of this sheet. On the front, a young woman with a joyful expression pulls water from a well while her companions in the background wash laundry. On the other side, the same woman gazes sadly into the well. The two scenes—of first happiness, then disillusionment—might relate to a popular Spanish saying: 'mi gozo en un pozo' (my joy in a well).
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Inscription: Numbered in brush and grey wash, upper right: '45'; to the right of which in dark pen and ink: '8' [pertaining to Fortuny Album, no.8]
Javier Goya y Bayeu, (from 1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (Spanish), (from 1854); Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish), (from ca. 1855–1863); Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, (by gift in 1894)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–December 31, 1995.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. "Goya's Realism," February 11, 2000–May 7, 2000.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Goya: Images of Women," March 10, 2002–June 2, 2002.
Museo Nacional del Prado. "Drawings by Goya," November 19, 2019–February 16, 2020.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya’s Graphic Imagination," February 8–May 2, 2021.
Gassier and Wilson 1971, no. 411; Gassier 1973, no. B45 [56]
Harry B. Wehle "An Album of Goya's Drawings" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 31, New York, February 1936, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XXXI, 1936 (Feb.), (incl. bibliography), pp. 23–28.
A Survey of Spanish Painting Through Goya. Baltimore, 1937, (listed)., fig. no. 28, ill.
An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Francisco Goya. San Francisco, 1937, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. (listed), pl. 38 (ill.), fig. no. 38, p. 39, ill.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938, ill.
Eleanor Sayre "Eight Books of Drawings by Goya-I" in The Burlington Magazine. vol. 56, January 1964, (listed). vol. CVI, 1964 (Jan.), fig. no. 46, pp. 19-30, p. 28, ill.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and listed), fig. no. 411, part II, p. 174, ill.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1974, no. 11, repr., fig. no. 11.
Pierre Gassier "A propos de deux dessins inédits de Goya du travail et des hommes" in L'Oeil. 280, France, 1978, L'Oeil, no. 280, Nov. 1978, p. 27, fig.4., fig. no. 4., p. 27, ill.
Janis Tomlinson, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Aileen Ribeiro, Concha Herrero Carretero, Anna Reuter Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat., The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., March 10-June 2, 2002. Washington D.C., 2002, cat. no. 99, ill.
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