Cleveland Museum of Art
The Filiation, Plate 57
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
- 104539
From LinkedCulture
Plate 57 from Goya's Los Caprichos shows a sleeping man cradled in a young woman's lap while an older figure reads aloud from what appears to be a lineage record. Crowding in behind them are grotesque masked figures, including one wearing a tall hat topped with a large key or scissors. Goya made this etching and aquatint in 1799 to mock the obsession with noble bloodlines, suggesting that the only witnesses to claims of pure ancestry are fools and monsters.
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A group of people gathered around a bed, one person reading from a book.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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