A number of drawings from this album address relations between the sexes. Here, to avenge their sister’s honor, one of two brothers crosses swords with her lover, and the other aims a pistol at him. On the other side of the page (35.103.15), Goya’s caption makes explicit what is shown, a satire on piety. Two women have adopted the appearance of nuns. Although the caption identifies the man as a confessor—a role normally associated with a religious figure—his clothes give him away as a majo (a confident, well-dressed young man from the Spanish lower classes). As such, he is clearly visiting the women at their behest to indulge in improper activity.
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Title:Two brothers killing their sister's lover in her presence; folio 77 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
Artist:Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Date:1796–98
Medium:Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes, on laid paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 9-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. (23.5 x 14.61cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Object Number:35.103.14
Inscription: Inscribed in brush and wash (with corrections in pen and ink), below the image: Los hermanos de ella, matan a su amante [, y ella / se mata despues] (Her brothers kill her lover, and afterward she kills herself). Numbered in brush and grey wash, at the upper right: 77, above which in pen and dark ink: 14. [pertaining to Fortuny Album no. 14]
Javier Goya y Bayeu, (from 1828); Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (Spanish), (from 1854); Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish), (from ca. 1855–1863); Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, (by gift in 1894)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–December 31, 1995.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. "Goya's Realism," February 11, 2000–May 7, 2000.
Museo Nacional del Prado. "Drawings by Goya," November 19, 2019–February 16, 2020.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Goya’s Graphic Imagination," February 8–May 2, 2021.
Gassier 1973, B77 [80]; Gassier and Wilson 1971, no. 436
An Exhibition of the Work of Goya Exh. cat., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1935, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Goya Exhibition, 1935, also Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1936.
Francisco Goya : his paintings, drawings and prints. Exh. cat.: MMA January 27 - March 8. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1936, Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of Goya, 1936, also Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1935.
Harry B. Wehle "An Album of Goya's Drawings" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 31, New York, February 1936, (incl. bibliography), 23–28.
A Survey of Spanish Painting Through Goya. Baltimore, 1937, (gives ex colls.)., fig. no. 27.
An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Francisco Goya. San Francisco, 1937, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. (listed), pl. 37 (ill.) (gives ex colls and exhibitions), fig. no. 37, 39.
Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938, ill.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and Listed) ; p. 162 (mentioned)., fig. no. 435, part II, p. 175.
Pierre Gassier Francisco Goya Drawings, The Complete Albums. New York, 1973, ill. plate B. 77, p. 107, fig. no. 80, 134.
A. Hyatt Mayor Goya: 67 Drawings. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974, no. 17, repr., fig. no. 17.
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., September 12 - December 31. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995.
Mark McDonald Goya's Graphic Imagination. New York, 2021, (entry by Mark McDonald), cat. no. 14A, pp. 92–93, ill.
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