Cleveland Museum of Art
There They Go Plucked, Plate 20
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
- 104494
From LinkedCulture
In this 1799 etching by Francisco de Goya, two naked, plucked birds scramble along the ground while hunched, cloaked figures press close behind two young women, one holding a broom and another raising a staff. The scene is Plate 20 of Los Caprichos, printed around 1855, and the title translates roughly to "There they go plucked." Goya used those stripped birds as a direct stand-in for women exploited and discarded by corrupt figures around them, a critique so pointed that the Spanish Inquisition took notice of the entire series.
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A group of women is engaged in cleaning activities within a room.
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