drawings from goya's private albums

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1812-23) Vision de Bajan Riñendo (They Go Down Fighting) From Goya Album "F" in Pen and ink and grey wash on paper. Private collection.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1812-23) Le Repentir (Repentance.) From Goya Album "F" in Brush and ink and brown wash on paper. Private collection.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1812-23) En Zaragoza à Mediados del Siglo Pasado, me Tieron à un Alguacil LLamado Lampiños, en el Cuerpo de un Rocin Muerto, y lo Cosieron; Toda la Noche se Mantubo Vivo (Constable Lampiños Stitched into a Dead Horse.) From Goya Album "F" in Pen and ink and grey wash on paper. Private collection.

Goya was so spontaneous and self-confident that he felt no need to cover his tracks, to achieve a deceptively perfect finish. As a result, we can follow the movements of his hand, which created, corrected, and altered the drawing as it developed before his eyes and suggested new forms, ideas and meanings to him as he progressed.

Wilson-Bareau, Juliet (2001: 21) Goya: Drawings from his Private Albums. Haywood Gallery in Association with Lund Humphries, London.

Album F was Goya's final album of private drawings. The subject matter was mostly everyday Spanish themes. Goya worked "one-touch" with brush and sepia wash. Unlike in previous albums, Goya did not feel the need to make corrections. He incorporated his errors into the composition or simply let them stand.