Man Mocked by Two Women

Man Mocked by Two Women or Women Laughing (Spanish: Dos mujeres y un hombre [English:Two Women and a Man]) or The Ministration are names given to a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, probably completed between 1820 and 1823.

It is one of Goya's 14 Black Paintings, a series painted directly onto the walls of his home, Quinta del Sordo, near the end of his life. He was then living in despair, and the works are oppressively dark in both mood and colour. It shows two women with maniacal smiles seemingly laughing at a simple-minded man who appears to be masturbating at the right hand of the picture. Despite their jeers, the woman to the left may also be masturbating, which—in the absence of any written or oral comment from Goya on any work in the series—art critics and historians believe lends to the image's futile and sterile intent.

Having been removed from the walls of his house, the Black Paintings are now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.