An old woman spinning, spindle in her right hand, distaff in her left
Medium
Pen lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (15.8 × 13 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Acquisitions Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.650
Tags
SpindlesWomen
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 ...