1796
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Young Woman (possibly a Sex Worker) with a Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso) is a 1796 by Francisco Goya, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see two quick sketches on the same sheet of paper. One side shows a woman and a man talking in a dim room. The other side shows the same woman, now alone, twisting her hands over a man’s bare body. Goya drew these in private notebooks—no one was meant to see them. The woman’s face is calm in the first scene but frantic in the second, like a story told in two frames. These sketches feel raw, almost like a secret diary. To see more of Goya’s private drawings, look up Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828).
Among the great figures of the pictorial arts in the West, Francisco de Goya is one of the very few whose work as a graphic artist is arguably even more important than his paintings. Alongside a prodigious output of prints, he created eight sketchbooks of drawings over the course of 30 years. This double-sided sheet comes from the so-called Album B, or Madrid Album, which, like all of them, was scattered throughout the world in public and private collections after his death. The drawings reveal Goya’s powers of invention and observation, and his biting satire. On the recto side of the sheet,…
Much of Francisco de Goya's graphic output of drawings and prints was not made public until well after his death.
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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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