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

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Artwork Details

Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter (Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor)
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm);5 5/16 x 4 3/8 in. (13.49 x 11.11 cm);8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in. (21.43 x 15.08 cm);19 x 14 in. (48.26 x 35.56 cm)
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.152.1

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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.

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