The captions referring to contrasting moral conditions on either side of this sheet form a linguistic bond. As with many of Goya’s captions, however, they relate to the images obliquely, generating questions rather than describing. The haughty man at right here has been identified as Napoleon Bonaparte. He approaches a group of figures who adopt various attitudes: obsequiousness, humiliation, fear, and curiosity. The other drawing on the other side of the sheet (35.103.12) depicts what appears to be a pawn shop. In the foreground, a woman opens her mantle to reveal her elegant dress, while a young man secures a bundle. To whom the generosity and greed of the caption apply is not clear.
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Title:Humility versus Pride; a young man imploring an older man with other figures in front of them; folio 75 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:1796–98 (possibly later)
Medium:Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes, 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
Accession Number:35.103.13
Inscription: Inscribed in brush and wash below the image: Humilidad contra soberbia. Numbered at the upper right in brush and grey wash: 75, next to which in pen and brown ink: 13. [pertaining to Fortuny Album I, no. 13]
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.
Museo Nacional del Prado. "Drawings by Goya," November 19, 2019–February 16, 2020.
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Gassier and Wilson 1971, no. 433; Gassier 1973, no. B75 [78]
An Exhibition of the Work of Goya Exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1935, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Goya Exhibition, 1935, also Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1936 cat. no. 22.
Francisco Goya : his paintings, drawings and prints. Exh. cat.: MMA January 27 - March 8. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1936, Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of Goya, 1936, also Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1935.
Harry B. Wehle "An Album of Goya's Drawings" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 31, New York, February 1936, (incl. bibliography), pp. 23-28.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938, fig. no. pl. 11, ill.
Goya: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue supplement, no. 203.
Goya and His Times. Exh. cat., December 7, 1963 - March 1, 1964. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1963-64, p. 86, Cat. no 165 (gives ex colls., exhibitions and references)., cat. no. Cat. no. 165, p. 86.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and listed); p. 162 (mentioned), fig. no. fig. 433, part II, p. 175.
Pierre Gassier Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973, ill. plate B. 75, p. 105, fig. no. no. 78, p. 133, ill.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, no. 15, 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.
Mark McDonald Goya's Graphic Imagination. New York, 2021, (entry by Mark McDonald), cat. no. 13A, pp. 90–91.
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