For heaven's sake: and it was her mother (Dios la perdonne: y era su madre)

Accession Number
2008/1.152.16

Title
For heaven's sake: and it was her mother (Dios la perdonne: y era su madre)

Artist(s)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Object Creation Date
1799

Medium & Support
etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper

Dimensions
12 in x 8 in (30.48 cm x 20.32 cm);7 1/2 in x 4 13/16 in (19.05 cm x 12.22 cm);7 13/16 in x 5 13/16 in (19.84 cm x 14.76 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 16
For heaven’s sake: and it was her mother.
(Dios la perdonne: y era su madre.)
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.16
Commentary: The young woman left her home as a little girl. She did her apprenticeship at Cadiz, she came to Madrid: there she “won the lottery.” She goes down to the Prado, and hears a grimy, decrepit old woman begging her for alms; she sends her away, but the old woman persists. The fashionable young woman turns around and finds—who would have thought it—that the poor old woman is her mother.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
intaglio print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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