Prostitute Soliciting a Fat, Ugly Man, Folio 49 (recto)
1796–97
- Medium
- brush and gray and black washes on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 14.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208453
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, …
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1995.15.a
Registry history
- 1796–97 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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