Goya Bewitched
Goya Bewitched One of the masterpieces of The Courtauld Gallery's collection of Spanish drawings is a sheet known as Cantar y bailar (Singing and dancing), page 3 from Goya's Album D, also known as…
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Goya Bewitched
One of the masterpieces of The Courtauld Gallery's collection of Spanish drawings is a sheet known as Cantar y bailar (Singing and dancing), page 3 from Goya's Album D, also known as the 'Witches and Old Women' album. Goya began to create 'journal albums' of drawings relatively late in life, after the shattering illness that left him stone deaf before the age of fifty. Bringing together all the extant album pages, currently numbered up to 23, this catalogue proposes a reconstruction of the album that would include the sheets from which Goya's page numbers have been erased or trimmed away.
Visually, technically and intellectually coherent, these albums are unified in their discrete techniques and types of support, and paginated It was a practice he would sustain until his death, creating eight albums (named with letters A to H) that originally included a total of some 550 drawings.