'Nightmare'; an old woman carrying figures on her back; page 20 from the Witches and Old Women Album (D)
ca. 1819–23
Medium
Brush, carbon black and gray ink and wash, touches of black chalk, on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/16 x 5 11/16 in. (23.4 x 14.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.27
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 ...