Cleveland Museum of Art
The Proverbs: Poor Folly
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 109446
From LinkedCulture
Goya made these prints in secret, with no intention of ever showing them to the world. In Poor Folly, a young woman recoils in dark clothing, her arms raised, as hunched and grimacing figures press toward her from one side, a laughing shape lurks in shadow on the other, and a disembodied head rises from the ground beneath her. Published only in 1864, long after Goya's death, this etching and aquatint belongs to his Disparates series, a deeply private vision of human irrationality that stands among the most psychologically radical prints ever made.
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A group of people in period clothing gathers outside a building, one figure raising their hand.
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- Gift of Grover Higgins
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