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Title:Three men digging; folio 51 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)
Series/Portfolio:Images of Spain Album
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:ca. 1812–20
Medium:Brush with brown and gray-brown wash on laid paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 8-1/8 x 5-5/8 in. (20.6 x 14.3cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Object Number:35.103.32
Inscription: Numbered upper center in light brush and brown ink: '51'; inscribed in pen and dark ink upper right: '32' [pertaining to Fortuny Album I, no. 32].
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.
Zaragoza Museum. "Goya y el mundo moderno," December 18, 2008–March 8, 2009.
The Frick Collection, New York. "The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya," October 5, 2010–January 9, 2011.
Gassier/Wilson 1971, no.1472; Gassier 1973, no.F51 [317]; Mayor 1974, no.44
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, 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, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. XXXI, 1936 (Feb. ), pp. 23-28 (incl. bibliography)., pp. 23-28.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938.
A. Hyatt Mayor "Goya's Creativeness." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 5, New York, 1946, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, N. S. , vol. V, 1946 (D.), p. 106, ill. (almost identical with Frick Collections's painting of the Forge)., p. 106, ill.
Goya: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue supplement, no. 220., fig. no. no. 220.
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, no 182 (gives ex colls., exhibitions and references).illustrated souvenir catalogue, pl. 52., fig. no. pl. 52.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 95, fig. no. 95, ill.
Harry D. M. Grier Memorial Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Related to the Works in the Frick Collection.. The Frick Collection, Checklist no. 7, New York, 1971, New York, The Frick Collection, 1972, checklist no. 7.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and Listed); p. 375 (mentioned)., fig. no. fig. 1472, part III, p. 244, ill.
Philip Troutman Goya, Francisco. Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Folio Society. London, 1971, Selected and introduced by Philip Troutman, The Folio Society, London, 1971 pl. 31 (ill.)., fig. no. pl. 31, ill.
Pierre Gassier Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973, ill. plate F. 51, p. 429, fig. no. no 317, p. 486, ill.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, no. 44, repr, fig. no. no. 44.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Eleanor Sayre Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment. Exh. cat. Museo del Prado, October 6-December 18, 1988 ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 18-March 26, l989 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 9-July 16, 1989 (English edition). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1988, (English edition of exhibition catalogue: Madrid-Boston-New York), Boston, 1989, pp. 334-335, no. 150, repr.(exhibited in Boston and New York only; see Bibliography for Spanish edition of catalogue.), fig. no. no. 150, pp. 334-335.
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. 423-424, no. 150, repr., fig. no. no. 150, pp. 423-424.
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, Baticle, Jeannine. Goya. Paris: Fayard, 1992.
Delteil, Loys. Le peinture graveur illustré. Vols. 14 and 15, Francisco Goya. Paris, 1922.
Gassier, Pierre. Francisco Goya, Drawings: The Complete Albums. Translated by James Emmons and Robert Allen.
Valeriano Bozal Goya y el mundo moderno. Barcelona, 2008, cat. no. 33, 136, ill.
Jonathan Brown, Lisa A. Banner, A. Schulz et al. The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya. Exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York (October 5, 2010 - January 9, 2011). New York, 2010, pp. 150-51, no. 41 (entry by Susan Grace Galassi), ill.
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