Collect this etching by the acclaimed Spanish artist Francisco Goya from the Los Caprichos series.
Francisco Goya’s expressive, tempestuous paintings are iconic works of late 18th- and early 19th-century art. With his thick brushstrokes, high-contrast color palettes, and dark, psychological themes, Goya created a crucial bridge between the Old Masters’ style and subject matter and the modernists’ interests in politics and the surreal; Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí named Goya an important forebear to their own practices. Goya was equally famed for his etchings and drawings, which feature both monstrous subject matter and more lighthearted, satirical fare. His most famous works include The Third of May 1808 (1814) and Saturn Devouring One of His Sons (1820–23)—violence, whether authoritarian or mythological, is prevalent throughout his oeuvre. Goya’s paintings have sold for millions on the secondary market and belong in the collections of countless institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museo del Prado, the Frick Collection, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Los caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797–1798 and published as an album in 1799. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's condemnation of the universal follies and foolishness in the Spanish society in which he lived. The criticisms are far-ranging and acidic; the images expose the predominance of superstition, the ignorance and inabilities of the various members of the ruling class, pedagogical shortcomings, marital mistakes and the decline of rationality. Some of the prints have anticlerical themes. Goya described the series as depicting "the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual".
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