He can no longer at the age of ninety-eight

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He can no longer at the age of ninety-eight

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya)

Spanish Artist · 1746–1828

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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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An extremely aged figure of a man hobbles along with two canes, overwhelmed by the weight of his own body. Drawn from life, the figure presents a universal image of old age, while the inscription flatly describes physical and mental frailty and hints at sexual impotence. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes made the drawing at age sixty and had himself survived a serious illness; along with several other studies of old people, he included this drawing in his now-dispersed "Album D." For Goya, the paper played as strong a role as brush and india ink. He enhanced the old man's sense of isolation by placing him low on the page, allowing the blank background to suggest his loneliness. Blank paper evokes his bald head, and the india ink provided clean black strokes and exceptionally fine gray washes for the high dramatic contrasts Goya valued. Few of his more than a thousand known drawings are purely linear, fitting for the artist who first declared that nature contains no lines.

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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/103QXQ
Date
about 1819–1823
Medium
Brush and gray wash
Culture
Spanish
Object Type
Drawing

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Six words beneath this hunched figure say everything: he can no longer manage at ninety-eight. Goya placed the nearly bald old man low on the page, his body pitched forward between two walking sticks, dark garments bunching under his own weight, while vast empty paper closes in around him. That blank space is not background, it is loneliness made visible. Created around 1819 to 1823 using brush and gray wash, this drawing shows Goya turning the simplest materials into one of the most honest portraits of old age ever made.

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Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya)
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Culture
Spanish
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Medium
Brush and gray wash
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Department
Drawings
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1819–1823
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1819
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End Year
1823
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