Cleveland Museum of Art
Nanny's Boy, Plate 4
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799 (printed c.1855)
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104476
From LinkedCulture
A grown man in a lace cap crouches over a bowl like a toddler, while a hunched nursemaid strains under a heavy bundle behind him. This is plate 4 from Francisco de Goya's Los Caprichos, an etching and aquatint made in Spain in 1799 and printed around 1855. Goya titled it El de la rollona, Nanny's Boy, and used it to mock the moral laziness he saw spreading through Spanish society. The image stings because the figure is clearly no child.
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A man in a white robe and crown leans over a bowl, appearing to drink from it.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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