- 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
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.
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.
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Goya (1746-1828). Peintures-Dessins-GravuresCentre Cultural du MaraisParís1979consultant editors Jacqueline et Maurice Guillard
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Grabados y dibujos de Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1946catalogue Elena Páez Ríos
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Goya: zeichnungen, radierungen, lithographienInternational TageIngelheim1966exhibition displayed from May 7th to June 5 th 1966
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The changing image: prints by Francisco de GoyaMuseum of Fine Arts1974From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975
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Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional. Exposición de grabados y dibujos en el sesquicentenario de su muerteBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1978May - June 1978
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Grabados de Goya: colección propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional, que se conserva en su Gabinete deCasa de la Amistad de MoscúMoscow1979exhibition displayed from January 18th to 31st 1979
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Goya: Zeichnungen und DruckgraphikStädtische Galerie im Städelschen KunstintitutFrankfurt1981from February 13th to April 5th 1981
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La litografía en Burdeos en la época de GoyaAyuntamiento de ZaragozaZaragoza1983organized by Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. On January 1983. Celebrated also in Bordeaux, on May 1983.
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Origen de la litografía en España. El real establecimiento litográficoMuseo Casa de la MonedaMadrid1991From 31 October to 15 December 1991.
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Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1996from September 19th to December 15th 1996
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Goya grabadorMuseo del Grabado Español ContemporáneoMarbella1996from March 8th to May 5th 1996
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Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996Galerie KornfeldBern1996from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
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Goya en tiempos de guerraMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid2008consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués, from April 14th to July 13th 2008cat. 189
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Goya: Order and disorderMuseum of Fine ArtsBoston2014cat.54
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Agen2019cat.72
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Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.OxfordBruno Cassirer1964p. 421, cat. 276
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 363, cat. 1699
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Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle1980p. 305, cat. 273
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Origen de la litografía en España. El real establecimiento litográficoMadridFabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre1990p. 362, cat. 23
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Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalMadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional1996p. 269, cat.6
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Goya. Estampas. Grabado y litografíaBarcelonaElecta ediciones2007pp. 335 y 374, núm. 271
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Goya: Order & DisorderBostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications2014p. 119
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Goya. In the Norton Simon MuseumPasadenaNorton Simon Museum2016p. 235
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AgenSnoeck2019p. 167