The Water Bearer (Goya)
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| Artist | Francisco de Goya |
| Year | 1808-1812 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 69 cm × 50.5 cm (27 in × 19.9 in) |
| Location | Museum of Fine Arts, Buadpest |
The Water Bearer,[1] or Young Woman with a Pitcher,[2][3] (Spanish: La Aguadora) is an oil on canvas painting by Francisco de Goya, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
After a long period producing tapestry cartoons for the royal factory, where his works conformed to the court's rococo style, Goya started painting genre scenes. Works such as The Water Bearer, featuring working class people, can be seen in the context of the Spanish resistance to French occupation in the War of Independence.
According to the art historian Juliet Wilson-Bareau, this and The Knifegrinder were painted to hang in the painter's house in Madrid[4].
References
- ^ Oxford Educational
- ^ Kazimierz Zawanowski
- ^ Robert Hughes
- ^ (in Spanish) Goya Foundation in Aragon. La Aguadora.
Bibliography
- (in Spanish) Kazimierz Zawanowski, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Varsovie, Arkady (W kręgu sztuki), 1975
- (in Spanish) Robert Hughes, Goya. Artysta i jego czas, Varsovie, WAB, 2006 (ISBN 83-7414-248-0, OCLC 569990350), p. 248, et 76
- (in Spanish) Francisco Goya, Poznań, Oxford Educational, 2006 (ISBN 83-7425-497-1)
- (in Spanish) María Jesús Díaz (ed.), Goya, Madrid, Susaeta Ediciones, 2010 (ISBN 978-84-9928-021-9), p. 191
- (in Spanish) Clara Janés, Los genios de la pintura española: Goya, Madrid, SARPE, 1983 (ISBN 84-7700-100-6), p. 93