Cleveland Museum of Art
The Chinchillas, Plate 50
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
- 104530
From LinkedCulture
Two figures with enormous padlocks clamped over their ears are being spoon-fed by a third creature in this unsettling 1799 etching and aquatint by Francisco de Goya. Plate 50 from his Los Caprichos series, it uses Goya's smoky blacks and pale greys to show figures so sealed from reason they cannot even feed themselves. The padlocks are not subtle, and that is the point. Goya made ignorance look monstrous to expose the privilege and willful blindness he saw rotting Spanish society.
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A man lies on the ground, seemingly injured, while another figure approaches him with a weapon.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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