Cleveland Museum of Art
The Proverbs: Loyalty
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 109452
From LinkedCulture
Goya called this print "Loyalty," then packed it with writhing, grotesque figures who seem to embody anything but. In the thick aquatint darkness, a bloated, slack-faced figure clutches its chest while others crowd in, grasping and gesturing, and to the right a man hoists another in a gesture that looks as much like violence as it does support. These plates sat unpublished for nearly half a century because they were too cryptic and too dangerous. This 1864 etching marks the first time the world finally saw them.
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A group of grotesque figures engage in violent activity around a central figure.
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- Gift of Grover Higgins
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