'He Wakes Up Kicking'; a man on the floor kicking his legs after waking from a nightmare; page 13 from the Witches and Old Women Album (D)

'He Wakes Up Kicking'; a man on the floor kicking his legs after waking from a nightmare; page 13 from the Witches and Old Women Album (D) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Medium

Brush, carbon black and gray ink and wash, touches of black chalk, scraper, laid paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 9-5/16 x 5-3/4 in. (23.6 x 14.61cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935

Accession Number

35.103.26

Tags

Men

About the Artist

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 17461828

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 ...

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