Accession Number
2008/1.152.1

Title
Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter (Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor)

Artist(s)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Object Creation Date
1799

Medium & Support
etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper

Dimensions
12 in x 8 in (30.48 cm x 20.32 cm);7 in x 4 3/8 in (17.78 cm x 11.11 cm);8 1/2 in x 6 in (21.59 cm x 15.24 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

Label copy
Plate 1
Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter.
(Franco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor.)
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.1
March 28, 2009
Although a child of the Enlightenment, even Goya’s sunniest works accessed the irrational and nightmarish realms of the imagination. When Goya advertised the series of eighty prints for sale, he described them as a critique on “human errors and vices,” and rarely has such a scathing indictment of human folly been combined with such visual power. Priests, officials, lovers—all manner of humanity—come under his critical gaze in these prints.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
intaglio print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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