Prisoners in irons; page 80 from the 'Images of Spain' album (F)
ca. 1812–20
Medium
Brush, brown ink washes, over touche of black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 5/8 in. (20.7 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.103.44
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Prisoners in Irons page 80 from Francisco de Goya y Lucientes's *Images of Spain* albumF), a poignant drawing crafted around 1812–20. This intimate work on laid paper, measuring just 8⅛ × 5⅝ inches, employs brush-applied brown ink washes over subtle touches of black chalk. Goya, a master of Spanish Romanticism, produced these private albums during a turbulent era, channeling his disillusionment into raw, unflinching visions of human suffering. Created amid Spain's Peninsular War and the repressive reign of Ferdinand VII, the album captures the horrors of conflict and tyranny. Prisoner...
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 ...