Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1819 - 1822
Dimensiones
122 x 127 mm
Técnica y soporte
Piedra litográfica, lápiz, pincel y rascador, tinta negra, papel verjurado
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Ficha: realización/revisión
17 Feb 2011 / 24 May 2023
Inventario
225
Historia

See The Old Spinner.

There are proofs, stamped at the Lithographic Establishment of the Hydrographic Deposit in Madrid, in various collections: National Library of Madrid, from the Carderera collection; National Library of Paris, from the Lefort collection; Library of the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano; British Museum, from the Burty collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from the K. Elliot Bullard Collection; and the Hofer Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Análisis artístico

A seated women reads a book, while two boys listen attentively, crouched beside her. One of them rests his chin on his hand in an attitude of concentration.

The composition is closed in an arc, the light concentrating on the figure of the reader and contrasting gently with the rest in shadow. The darkness is much more intense in the area on the right, gradually lightening, using the scraper, towards the left over the heads of the two boys.

This is the first time that Goya introduced the uso of lithographic pencil in order to create a composition in chiaroscuro, which requierd the stone to be grained in different ways depending on what was to be achieved, as the drain facilitates the different intensities of colour.

The result of this lithography was not satisfactory, as the Cardano establishment did not have fine grain with which to obtain intense blacks. Goya tried to achieve the desired black with a brush, but the result was not what he had hoped for, leaving a somewhat dull print.

The characters in this intimate scene have been identified as Leocadia Weiss and her children, Guillermo and Rosario.

Exposiciones
  • Goya (1746-1828). Peintures-Dessins-Gravures
    Centre Cultural du Marais
    París
    1979
    consultant editors Jacqueline et Maurice Guillard
  • Grabados y dibujos de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1946
    catalogue Elena Páez Ríos
  • Goya: zeichnungen, radierungen, lithographien
    International Tage
    Ingelheim
    1966
    exhibition displayed from May 7th to June 5 th 1966
  • The changing image: prints by Francisco de Goya
    Museum of Fine Arts
    1974
    From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975
  • Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional. Exposición de grabados y dibujos en el sesquicentenario de su muerte
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1978
    May - June 1978
  •  Grabados de Goya: colección propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional, que se conserva en su Gabinete de
    Casa de la Amistad de Moscú
    Moscow
    1979
    exhibition displayed from January 18th to 31st 1979
  • Goya: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
    Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstintitut
    Frankfurt
    1981
    from February 13th to April 5th 1981
  • La litografía en Burdeos en la época de Goya
    Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1983
    organized by Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. On January 1983. Celebrated also in Bordeaux, on May 1983.
  • Origen de la litografía en España. El real establecimiento litográfico
    Museo Casa de la Moneda
    Madrid
    1991
    From 31 October to 15 December 1991.
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • Goya grabador
    Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo
    Marbella
    1996
    from March 8th to May 5th 1996
  • Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996
    Galerie Kornfeld
    Bern
    1996
    from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
  • Goya en tiempos de guerra
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2008
    consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués, from April 14th to July 13th 2008
  • Goya: Order and disorder
    Museum of Fine Arts
    Boston
    2014
  • Agen
    2019
Bibliografía
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    p. 421, cat. 276
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 363, cat. 1699
  • HOFMANN, Werner (ed.)
    Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830
    HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle
    1980
    p. 305, cat. 273
  • VEGA, Jesusa
    Origen de la litografía en España. El real establecimiento litográfico
    MadridFabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
    1990
    p. 362, cat. 23
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    p. 269, cat.6
  • CARRETE PARRONDO, Juan
    Goya. Estampas. Grabado y litografía
    BarcelonaElecta ediciones
    2007
    pp. 335 y 374, núm. 271
  • ILCHMAN, Frederick y STEPANEK, Stephanie L. (comisarios)
    Goya: Order & Disorder
    BostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications
    2014
    p. 119
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    p. 235
  • MOTTIN, Bruno, EFEDAQUE, Adrien and WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    AgenSnoeck
    2019
    p. 167
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