Monk Talking to an Old Woman (Fraile hablando con una vieja)

Datos Generales

Cronología: 1824 - 1825
Ubicación: Princeton University Art Museum. New Jersey, Princenton, United States
Dimensiones: 5.7 x 5.4 cm
Técnica y soporte: Watercolor on ivory

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Undisputed work
Titular: Princeton University Art Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión: 14 May 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
Inventario: (y1985-6)

Historia

This miniature belonged to the collection of Edward Habich in Cassel. He put the painting up for sale in Stuttgart on 27 and 28 April 1899, and it subsequently belonged to the following collections: William Rothenstein, John Quinn, P. Lorillard, E. John Heidsieck, Robert Maisel and Richard L. Feigen & Company. When the latter owners put the painting up for sale again it was acquired by the Fowler McCormik collection now belonging to the museum where it is housed today.

Análisis artístico

For a complete artistic and technical analysis of the whole series, see Maja and Celestina.

This piece depicts a monk and an old woman talking together. The woman's head is covered by a blue veil or scarf. She stares horrified at the viewer as she backs away. By her side, the monk makes a face that suggests he is shouting. The gesture is reminiscent of that made by the monk on the right-hand side of the painting Two Monks belonging to the Black Paintings. As in the case of the paintings of the Quinta del Sordo, these characters are also ugly, disagreeable, and disturbing.

Exposiciones

Goya. El Capricho y la Invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturas

Museo Nacional del Prado

Madrid

1993

from November 18th 1993 to February 15th 1994. Exhibited also at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 18th to June 12th 1994 and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 16th to October 16th 1994, consultant editors Manuela B. Mena Marqués and Juliet Wilson-Bareau

cat. 108
Goya’s last Works

The Frick Art Collection

New York

2006

consultant editors Jonathan Brown and Susan Grace Galassi. From February 22nd to May 14th 2006

cat. 14

Bibliografía

SAYRE, Eleanor

Goya’s Bordeaux miniatures, , , Boston, 1966

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Bulletin
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1966

p. 118, cat. 13
GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet

Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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ParísOffice du livre

1970

pp. 357, 362, cat. 1685
GUDIOL RICART, José
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BarcelonaPolígrafa

1970

vol. I, p. 386, cat. 748
ANGELIS, Rita de

L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
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MilanRizzoli

1974

p. 136, cat. 676
CAMÓN AZNAR, José

Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
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ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja

1980-1982

vol. IV, p. 219
MENA, Manuela B. y WILSON-BAREAU, Juliet (comisarias)

Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturas
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MadridMuseo del Prado

1993

pp. 324-325, 381, cat. 108 y p. 328 (il.
BROWN, Jonathan y GALASSI, Susan Grace

Goya’s last works
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New YorkThe Frick Collection and Yale University Press

2006

p. 130, cat. 14 y p. 131 (il.)
www.princetonartmuseum.org

Monk Talking to an Old Woman (Fraile hablando con una vieja)

Easel painting. Various subjects