The sight of two old women fighting in the street would probably meet with roughly the same response from passers-by whether it happened today or 200 years ago – a queasy mixture of dismay, ...

In the second room of the exhibition, titled "Life Studies," we see Goya’s sense of humor, as well as his timeless rendering of everyday issues. He paints an old woman attempting to wear clothes that ...

This major exhibition reunites all the surviving drawings from the Witches and Old Women Album for the first time, offering a fascinating and enlightening view of a very private and personal ...

Goya: Terrible BeautyWhich is not to say that the exhibit is unrelentingly grim. The early years of the 19th century were a time of tremendous creativity for Goya, and the full range of his talent ...

See Goya – The Witches and Old Women Album until May 25, 2015 at the Courtauld Gallery. You can save 50 per cent on admission to this exhibition – and many more – with the National Art Pass.

Because he was uniquely up to the challenge, Goya now inhabits a dusty cliché: he was the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns. Of course, certain clichés are head-slappers.

The child depicted is the six-year-old nephew of King Charles III, and the work was executed soon after Goya began painting for the Spanish royal court.

'Last Light,' a recent book by former Time magazine critic Richard Lacayo, draws on six artists' lives to prove that younger isn't always better.

Goya was in his seventies by the time he produced the series of 22 drawings making up the Witches and Old Women album, c.1819-23, reunited here for the first time since his death.