# Señora Sabasa Garcia

**Francisco Goya** (Spanish, 1746–1828)  
c. 1806/1811  
oil on canvas  
overall: 71 x 58 cm (27 15/16 x 22 13/16 in.) framed: 94.6 x 81.3 x 7.6 cm (37 1/4 x 32 x 3 in.)

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937.1.88. [The museum's record](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.95.html).

## About this work

A young woman looks over her shoulder directly at us, her curly brown hair half hidden under a white lace mantilla and a wide orange and black shawl wrapped about her shoulders, her gloved hands clasped at her waist. Goya sets her against a plain dark background, so that everything depends on the face and the bold pattern of the shawl. Painted in the first decade of the nineteenth century, it is among his most direct portraits, quick and loosely brushed yet vividly present.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

Francisco Goya painted this in about 1806/1811, aged about 60. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

### What you’re looking at

Shown from the waist up in front of a black background, a young woman with pale white skin and curly brown hair looks directly out at us over her shoulder with her body angled to our left in this vertical portrait. She has dark brown eyes, a straight nose, smooth skin, and her pink lips are closed. Curls fall across her forehead but the rest of her hair is pulled up under a white lace scarf, called a mantilla. The mantilla is tucked under the wide orange and black shawl wrapped around her shoulders. She clasps her hands at her waist, and her hands and forearms are covered with long white gloves that disappear under the shawl.

_Description from the National Gallery of Art._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Francisco Goya](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/francisco-goya)

Spanish, 1746–1828; born in Fuendetodos; died in Bordeaux

Goya began with tapestry designs for the royal factory in Madrid and rose to become first painter to the Spanish court under Charles IV. After a serious illness left him deaf in the 1790s, his work grew darker and more personal. His etched series, Los Caprichos and The Disasters of War, satirise folly and record the atrocities of the Peninsular War, and he painted the Black Paintings directly on the walls of his own house. He spent his last years in exile in Bordeaux.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- The artist was about 60
- Real size: about 28 × 23 in (71 × 58 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: female, Garcia Perez de Castro, Maria, Garcia, Sabasa
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1307.jpg?dl=1
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- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86; 24 × 36 in $108
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208; 24 × 36 in $258
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/senora-sabasa-garcia-nga-95).