It's a pity you don't have something else to do

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It's a pity you don't have something else to do

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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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Throughout his work, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes expressed himself freely and often with humor. This page from his "Album C" seems, at first glance, to be one of his depictions of working girls. This young woman, however, wears a fine dress, jewelry, and a rather coy hairstyle and displays a graceful, almost cultivated bearing. She is pretty, not vacuous, but her questioning gaze and awkward cradling of the jug betray her uncertainty. Goya's caption, the drawing's title, tells the whole story: He admonishes her for playing at being a peasant, a practice then fashionable among the upper classes. Even as he rebuked this young woman, he flattered her, setting her alone and off-center on the sheet with a few pen strokes and a bit of wash to give her grounding. At least seventy years old when he made this drawing, Goya remained fluid and spontaneous in his technique, quickly capturing the swaying of her skirt and the little crinkles in her sleeve.

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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/103QX6
Date
about 1808–1814
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
Culture
Spanish
Object Type
Drawing

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A wealthy young woman cradles a clay water jug she has no idea how to hold, her fine dress and jewelry giving her away instantly. Goya captured her in a few quick pen strokes and a touch of brown wash, part of his private "Album C" drawn around 1808 to 1814. His caption says it all: "It's a pity you don't have something else to do," a dry rebuke of upper-class women playing at peasant life. He made this at seventy years old, and his touch never lost its wit or its ease.

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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
Pen and brown ink and 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
about 1808–1814
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Begin Year
1808
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End Year
1814
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