Cleveland Museum of Art
Bravo!, Plate 38
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
- 104515
From LinkedCulture
A donkey sits upright, strumming a guitar, while grinning monkeys crowd around it in wild applause. This is plate 38 from Francisco de Goya's Los Caprichos, an etching and aquatint from 1799, with this impression printed around 1855. The word "Brabisimo!" is inscribed below in flowing script, dripping with sarcasm. Goya used this image to mock a society that rewarded noble birth over actual talent, and the joke still lands more than two centuries later.
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A donkey and a monkey are depicted in a humorous scene where the monkey plays a guitar while the donkey sits on the ground.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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