Art Institute of Chicago
Bravo!, plate 38 from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y LucientesLinkedCulture matchlcp-996a1e74ef53
- Date
- 1797/99
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 123799
Francisco de Goya wrote acidic commentary to accompany each print in his series The Caprices . For Bravo! he noted, “If ears were all that were needed to appreciate it, no one could listen more intelligently.” Some critical readings of this work interpret it as a commentary on Manuel de Godoy’s parties thrown for King Charles IV. Godoy came to Charles’s palace in Madrid as a musician and left it as prime minister; his meteoric rise is often attributed to a liaison with Queen Maria Louisa. Bravo! suggests the king was oblivious to this relationship to the point of not recognizing what was in front of him.
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- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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