1824
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Woman Reading to Two Children is a 1824 by Francisco Goya, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a woman in a dark dress reading aloud to two children. The light hits her face and hands, making them stand out sharp against the dark room. You can see the paper in her hands and the kids leaning in close to listen. Goya made this in France after he left Spain. He worked with a lithographer there, using crayon on stone and scratching out fine details. The scratches add texture and light to the woman’s arm and mantilla. Try looking up Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) next.
Goya left Spain in 1824 to escape the repressive rule of King Ferdinand VII and settled in Bordeaux, France, where he met Gaulon, an expert lithographer. Working with him, Goya executed Woman Reading to Two Children , where he drew densely with a crayon and then scratched out fine highlights on the woman's arm, skirt, mantilla, and around her head. An onlooker described Goya's methods, "Usually he covered the whole stone with a uniform gray tone and then removed with the scraper those parts which were to appear light. . . . Next the crayon was again employed to strengthen the shadows, the…
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish: ; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
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