Drinking appears throughout Goya’s work, as a lubricant for social exchange, a metaphor for losing control, and a prelude to violence. In this drawing, a woman grabs at an inebriated man who, feet firmly planted and back arched, squirts wine into his mouth from a large skin. The caption complicates the subject. Referring to a future moment, it alludes to the outcome of the man’s uncontrolled drinking, but what might that outcome be? The woman’s alarm, expressed through her gesture, raised eyebrows, and open mouth, suggests it could be more than a mere hangover—perhaps something more insidious fueled by habitual activity that she is powerless to control.
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Inscription: Inscribed in graphite below image: 'Despues lo beras' ('You'll see later'). Numbered upper center in brush and brown ink '24', upper right in pen and dark brown ink '18.' [pertaining to Fortuny Album I, no. 18]
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)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Old Master Drawings from American Collections," April 29, 1976–June 13, 1976.
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Gassier and Wilson 1971, no. 1397; Gassier 1973, no. E24 [125]
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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, cat. no. 23, cat. no. 23.
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Harry B. Wehle "Fifty Drawings by Francisco Goya." MMA Papers no. 7. New York, 1938, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 21 (vol.2), fig. no. 21, ill.
Goya: Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue supplement, no. 206.
Pierre Gassier, Juliet Wilson Bareau Goya His Life and Work. London, 1971, (ill. and Listed)., fig. no. 1397, part III, p. 289, ill.
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Ebria Feinblatt Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1976, cat. no. 230, p. 215.
Margret Stuffmann Goya Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik. Exh. cat., Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, 13. Februar bis 5. April. 1981, Frankfurt am Main, Städelschen Kunstinstitut, (catalogue by Margret Stuffmann), 1981, p. 196, no. L43, repr.
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.
Janis Tomlinson, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Aileen Ribeiro, Concha Herrero Carretero, Anna Reuter Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat., The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., March 10-June 2, 2002. Washington D.C., 2002, cat. no. 108, ill.
Jonathan Brown, Lisa A. Banner, A. Schulz et al. The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya. Exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York (October 5, 2010 - January 9, 2011). New York, 2010, fig. no. 43, p. 154.
Mark McDonald Goya's Graphic Imagination. New York, 2021, (entry by Mark McDonald), cat. no. 76, pp. 228–29.
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