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Who would have thought it! (Quien lo creyera!)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Artwork Details

Who would have thought it! (Quien lo creyera!)
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching, burnished aquatint and burin on paper
12 in x 8 in (30.48 cm x 20.32 cm);8 1/16 in x 5 7/8 in (20.48 cm x 14.92 cm);8 in x 5 1/8 in (20.32 cm x 13.02 cm)
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.152.62

Description

Plate 62
Who would have thought it!
(Quien lo creyera!)
Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.62
Commentary: See here is a terrible quarrel as to which of the two is more of a witch. Who would have thought that the screechy one and the grizzly one would tear each other’s hair in this way? Friendship is the daughter of virtue. Villains may be accomplices but not friends.

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