Cleveland Museum of Art
Love and Death, Plate 10
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
- 104483
From LinkedCulture
What if the man who fights a duel for love simply loses? In this 1799 etching and aquatint by Francisco de Goya, a woman strains to hold up a dying man from behind, his head lolling back and his legs giving way, while a sword lies abandoned on the ground beneath them. Plate ten from Los Caprichos, titled El amor y la muerte in Goya's own hand, it turns romantic convention into pure grief. It was among the first times a major European artist used printmaking to satirize his own society rather than glorify it.
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Two figures embrace in a dimly lit, rocky environment.
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