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Pygmalion and Galatea
Creator
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya)Spanish Artist · 1746–1828
All works by this person →Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes welcomed and received official honors and worldly success with enthusiasm. At the same time he left a ruthlessly penetrating record of his patrons and private expressions of introspection, moral objectivity, and caustic commentary on his times. By the 1780s Goya was Spain's leading painter, specializing in religious pictures and portraits. He acknowledged three m
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- Artist/Maker
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya)
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- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QYQ
- Date
- possibly about 1812–1820
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash
- Culture
- Spanish
- Object Type
- Drawing
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Goya takes the myth of Pygmalion and turns it into something deeply unsettling. In this brush and brown wash drawing, possibly made between 1812 and 1820, a wild-limbed figure rears back with a hammer while a fearful Galatea leans slightly forward, wide-eyed. The freely applied sepia washes show Goya's total command of tone with minimal means. What makes it matter is how completely he subverts Ovid, replacing tender creation with something far more disturbing.
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- Object ID
- a20509c3-bd47-4495-88fc-8b7bd40a8564
- Object Type
- Drawing
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- Creator
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya)
- Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
- Culture
- Spanish
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- Medium
- Brush and brown wash
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- Department
- Drawings
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- Credit Line
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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- Date
- possibly about 1812–1820
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- Begin Year
- 1812
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- End Year
- 1820
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