Work is Always Rewarding (El trabajo siempre premia)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.550
People: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish (Fuendetodos 1746 - 1828 Bordeaux)
Title: Work is Always Rewarding (El trabajo siempre premia)
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Woman Knitting
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1803-1812
Culture: Spanish
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297918

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: 24.1 x 17 cm (9 1/2 x 6 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.550

Division

European and American Art

Contact

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Publication History

Eleanor A. Sayre, "An Old Man Writing: A Study of Goya's Albums", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, Autumn 1958), LVI, pp. 116-136, pp. 119, 136, fig. 3 (p. 121)

Exhibition History

32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2015 - 11/19/2015

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