Francisco de Goya, Woman Reading to Two Children
Severance Fund, 1998.171 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Francisco de Goya

Woman Reading to Two Children

1824–25

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
16.5 × 24.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-220016

Goya left Spain in 1824 to escape the repressive rule of King Ferdinand VII and settled in Bordeaux, France, where he met Gaulon, an expert lithographer. Working with him, Goya executed Woman Reading to Two Children, where he drew densely with a crayon and then scratched out fine highlights on the woman's arm, skirt, mantilla, and around her head. An onlooker described Goya's methods, "Usually he covered the whole stone with a uniform gray tone and then removed with the scraper those parts which were to appear light. . . . Next the crayon was again employed to strengthen the shadows, the acce…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1998.171

Registry history

  • 1824–25 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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