This drawing comes early in Goya’s second album, among others that broadly deal with relations between the sexes. The composition is filled with drama. A young woman covering her face turns from the two men flanking her. The reason for her distress is not revealed but presumably pertains to some love-related upset. On the other side of the page (35.103.5), an elegantly dressed young woman twists sharply and gazes to her right. Her position is provocative, as if she is displaying herself. The woman in the background seems to be leaning into the man, possibly whispering, adding a sense of intrigue.
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Title:Young woman weeping and covering her face with her hands, accompanied by men; folio 17 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:1795–97
Medium:Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes, black chalk, on laid paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (23.5 x 14.61cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Object Number:35.103.4
Inscription: Numbered in brush and gray wash upper right: 17, above which upper right, in pen and dark brown ink: 4 [pertaining to Fortuny Album, no.4]
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. "Spain: Drawings, Prints and Photographs," April 18–July 16, 1989.
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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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya’s Graphic Imagination," February 8–May 2, 2021.
Gassier and Wilson 1971, no.387; Gassier 1973, no.B17 [32]
An Exhibition of the Work of Goya Exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1935.
Francisco Goya : his paintings, drawings and prints. Exh. cat.: MMA January 27 - March 8. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1936.
Harry B. Wehle "An Album of Goya's Drawings" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 31, New York, February 1936, M.M.A. Bulletin, vol. XXXI, 1936 (Feb.), pp. 23-28 (incl. bibliography), 23–28.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938.
Eleanor Sayre "Eight Books of Drawings by Goya-I" in The Burlington Magazine. vol. 56, January 1964, In Burlington Magazine, vol. CVI, 1964 (Jan.) (listed)., fig. no. 18, 19-30. p. 27.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, fig. no. 387, Part II, p.173.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, fig. no. 5, repr.
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., September 12 - December 31. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995, cat. no. 93, 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. 95, 280.
Mark McDonald Goya's Graphic Imagination. New York, 2021, (entry by Mark McDonald), cat. no. 10A, pp. 84–85, ill.
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