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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Two Children Looking at a Book, 1824-1825

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746-1828, Spanish

Title

Two Children Looking at a Book

Year

1824-1825

Medium

Carbon black and watercolor on ivory

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • egg tempera,
  • lampblack

Supports

  • ivory

Dimensions

5.2 x 5.2 cm (2 1/16 x 2 1/16 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

21.129

Projects & Publications

Publications

Goya

Order & Disorder

Goya's Last Works

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries

During the last years of his life, Goya painted a group of small works on ivory. He employed an innovative technique here, darkening the ivory with lamp black, or soot, then dropping water on the surface to loosen and stain the ground. He manipulated the medium with his brush, sometimes adding watercolor or incising the
ground with a sharp instrument. Essentially moving from shadow to light, he revealed biblical and genre scenes, animating them with dramatically expressive faces. In
this image, two boys are caught in the act of reading. They peer closely at a book, their cheeks flushed by a wash of watercolor. The smaller boy smiles faintly while
his companion, dressed in a smock, narrows his eyes in concentration.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Two Children Looking at a Book with the accession number of 21.129. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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