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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

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You understand?…well, as I say…eh! Look out! Otherwise… (Está um…pues, como digo…eh! Cuidado! So no!…
1799
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
etching and burnished aquatint on paper
12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm);7 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (19.05 x 13.02 cm);8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (21.27 x 14.92 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
2008/1.152.76

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Plate 76
You understand?...well, as I say...eh! Look out! Otherwise... (¿Está umd ...pues, como digo... eh! Cuidado! So no!...) Etching and burnished aquatint
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2008/1.152.76
Commentary: The cockade and baton make this stupid bore think that he is a superior being, and he abuses the office entrusted to him to annoy everyone who knows him; he is proud, insolent, vain with all who are his inferiors; servile and abject with those who are his superiors.

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