Concert

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1794-1795

Height:

23.6 cm  (9 5/16 in.)

Width:

14.6 cm  (5 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

wash, brush, bistre on laid paper

Description

From the Museo del Prado website: In the first page of his Madrid Album, Goya depicted scenes of flirting between young people our walking, amorous affairs in meeting places on the outskirts of the city, and social gatherings. This drawing (Album B, 27) presents with obvious humor a common form of entertainment habitual in these cases which consisted in the performance of popular songs. The young woman is playing a harpsichord or a fortepiano, while a man no less elegant than she accompanies her in song.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Square pianoforte [2308]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

515