Art Institute of Chicago
A Woman and a Horse, Let Someone Else Master Them, plate ten from Los Proverbios
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Date
- 1815/24
- Medium
- Etching with aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This darkly satirical interpretation of a popular proverb demonstrates the equally unruly nature of equine and womankind. Twisting and rearing in a desolate landscape, the horse becomes both a violent abductor and a tender savior as he tries to catch the struggling woman’s dress in his teeth before she plummets to the ground.
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