Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1779
Ubicación
Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland
Dimensiones
86.5 x 59 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Titular
Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Ficha: realización/revisión
29 Nov 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
Inventario
(1937.3)
Otros títulos:
The Washerwomen's Rest (El descanso de las lavanderas)
Historia

Sketch for the tapestry cartoon The Washerwomen.

This work tends to be compared with the sketch for Card Players due to the almost identical dimensions of the two works and because they both entered the collection of the Reinhart Museum at the same time.

Análisis artístico

The quality of this supposed sketch, although not great, is better than that of its companion, which was excluded from some catalogues which did however see fit to include that of The Washerwomen, such as that by Gudiol, who first brought the work to light. Other writers have included it in the catalogue of Goya's work but whilst expressing their doubts as to its authorship. Others have preferred not to include it at all. Camón says that the style of this painting is very similar to that of the sketch for the cartoon A Stickball Game.

Arnaiz points out that the sketch presents the same composition as the cartoon, which must have lost at least some 37 cm from its height and therefore suggests that it could be a reduction, an opinion that he also expresses about the sketch for Card Players.

Bibliografía
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 90, cat. 146
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 248, cat. 86
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 137, cat. 713
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 112
  • ARNAIZ, José Manuel
    Francisco de Goya, cartones y tapices
    col. col. "Espasa Arte"
    Espasa Calpe
    1987
    pp. 190, 191, 273, 274, cat. 33B y p. 19
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