A woman attacking a sleeping man; page 87 from the 'Images of Spain' album (F)
ca.1812–20
Medium
Brush, brown ink washes, traces of black chalk, on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 8-1/16 x 5-5/8 in. (20.5 x 14.3cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.103.46
Tags
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...