This is the last known sheet from Goya’s second album, and the captions are among the longest he wrote, reflecting an urge to clarify complex scenes. Here, an oil vendor discovers that the well-dressed asses are impostors and, much to their chagrin, canes them. Without the complicated inscription, the scene would be impenetrable. The young woman in the drawing on the reverse side of the sheet throws a tantrum while Father Pichurris ("Father Whoever"), who has commented on her appearance, stands in the background. The idea is that she is so vain that remarks made even by an unknown priest are enough to provoke her fury.
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Title:Masquerading asses being whipped; folio 93 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:1796–98
Medium:Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes, touches of pen and brown ink, 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:35.103.17
Inscription: Inscribed in pen and brown ink above and below the image: Conocélos el aceitero y dice Ola? y empieza / a palos con las mascaras // ellos huyendo, claman la injusticia del poco respeto / a su representacion. (The oil vendor recognizes them and cries 'Hey!' and begins to beat the masqueraders; fleeing, they protest the injustice of such disrespect for their performance). Numbered in brush and gray wash upper right: 93; above which in pen and ink, 17 [pertaining to Fortuny Album I, no.17]
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)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment," January 18–March 26, 1989.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment," May 9–July 16, 1989.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–December 31, 1995.
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "Goya: Prophet der Moderne," July 13, 2005–October 3, 2005.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. "Goya: Prophet der Moderne," October 18, 2005–January 8, 2006.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya’s Graphic Imagination," February 8–May 2, 2021.
Gassier and Wilson 1971, no.449; Gassier 1973, no. B93 [94]
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.
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, (incl. bibliography), pp. 23-28.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938.
Goya: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1955, fig. no. 205.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and Listed) ; p. 162 (mentioned)., fig. no. fig. 449, part II, p. 176.
Pierre Gassier Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973, ill. plate B. 93, p. 121, fig. no. 94, p. 136.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, no. 21, repr., fig. no. 21.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Eleanor Sayre Goya y espíritu de la ilustración. Spanish edition of exhibition catalogue: Madrid-Boston-New York, 1988. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Spanish. Spain, 1988, Spanish edition of exhibition catalogue: 1988 Madrid-Boston-New York (Drawing not exhibited in Madrid; see Exhibition card) pp. 204-205, no. 37, repr. (recto on p. 205)., fig. no. 37, pp. 204–205.
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.
Juliet Wilson Bareau, Tom Lubbock Goya: Drawings From His Private Albums. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, February 22-May 13, 2001. London, 2001, cat. no. 37, p. 179, ill.
Prof. Dr. Peter-Klaus Schuster, Wilfried Seipel, Manuela Mena Marqués Goya: Prophet der Moderne. Exh. cat., Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Kohln, 2005, (entry by Gudrun Mühle-Maurer), cat. no. 52, p. 170, ill.
Mark McDonald Goya's Graphic Imagination. New York, 2021, (entry by Mark McDonald), cat. no. 16A, pp. 96–97, ill.
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