Cleveland Museum of Art
The Proverbs: God Creates Them and They Join Up Together
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 109453
From LinkedCulture
This etching sat unpublished for 35 years because no one knew what to do with it. A pale robed figure reaches toward a kneeling supplicant in near-total darkness, while cloaked onlookers press in from the left and a body lies crumpled in the foreground. Goya made this plate around 1815 to 1823 as part of his Proverbs series, and it was finally published in 1864, long after his death. It matters because no one, then or now, can fully explain what is happening.
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A ghostly figure extends a hand towards a kneeling figure in a dark, eerie setting.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Grover Higgins
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