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Prostitute Soliciting a Fat, Ugly Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso)

Prostitute Soliciting a Fat, Ugly Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso)

1796–97
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Spain, 18th century
brush and black and gray wash
Image: 18.7 x 12 cm (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 23.5 x 14.5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1995.15
Catalogue raisonné: Gassier & Wilson 413 (recto) and 414 (verso); Gassier B.49 (recto) and B.50 (verso)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Much of Francisco de Goya's graphic output of drawings and prints was not made public until well after his death.

Description

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, a vulgar encounter between a prostitute and a pot-bellied lecher reveals the bluntness of the Goya’s social criticism. The verso drawing is less easily pinned down, though it follows traditional iconography for representations of Saint Margaret of Cortona, a nobleman’s mistress who repented and entered a convent after her lover’s dog led her to his murdered corpse.
  • 1828-1854
    by inheritance from the artist to his son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (1784-1854), Madrid
    1854-around 1855-60
    by inheritance to his son, Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (1806-1874), Madrid
    around 1855/60
    sold by Mariano to Valentin Carderera y Solano (1796-1880), Madrid, or to Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1806-1874), Madrid, or his brother-in-law Román Garreta y Huerta
    around 1866-75
    Given or sold by Madrazo to Scipione Vannutelli (1834–1894), Rome
    1894-1960s
    by descent to his heirs, the Clementi-Vannutelli family.
    ?-around 1987
    Dorothy Braude Edinburg (1920-2015), Boston
    around 1987
    Jo-Ann Edinburg Pinkowitz, John Edinburg, and Hope Edinburg, Boston
    1987
    their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 108
    1994
    with David Carritt Ltd/Artemis Group, London and New York
    1995
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Wehle, Harry B. Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938. p. 13 (as Girl Mourning her Dead Lover" and "Young Woman Unconvinced"
    López-Rey, José. Goya's Caprichos: Beauty, Reason & Caricature. [Princeton]: Princeton University Press, 1953. 2 vols. 1: pp. 38-39; 2: figs. 39-40.
    Sayre, Eleanor. A. "Eight Books of Drawings by Goya: 1," Burlington Magazine CVI: 730-741 (Jan. to Dec. 1964): 19-30. no. 49-50, p. 28
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    Camón Aznar, José. Fran. de Goya. [Zaragoza]: Instituto Camon Aznar, 1980. 4 vols. III: nos. 49-50, p. 15
    "The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Goya and Benton Drawings," Drawing 17 (Nov. 1995-Mar. 1996): 105- p. 105
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: P. 11, 84-87, 287; Reproduced: p. 85-86, cat. no. 51
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  • Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
    Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
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