"The young woman left home as a little girl. She did her apprenticeship in Cádiz, and then came to Madrid where she had a stroke of good luck ('la cayó de lotería' / 'she won the lottery'). She went down to the paseo del Prado where she heard a dirty broken-down old women begging for alms. She sent the old woman away."
— Francisco Goya

January 1, 1970

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this is an explanatory Prado-text combined to the drawing there - the design for the Capricho-print nr. 16: 'Dios la perdone: y era su madre' / 'God forgive her: and it was her mother' (print of 1796-97), in which a seductive female women is taking her nightly place on the boulevard del Prado when she is accosted by a stooped old woman; it is her own mother who she did not recognize at the moment and has sent her away.