Cleveland Museum of Art
The Proverbs: The Men in Sacks
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 109460
From LinkedCulture
Goya completed these plates in secret and never saw them published. He died in 1828, and this print did not reach the world until 1864, nearly four decades later. In this etching and aquatint, a line of figures shuffles through near total darkness, each one swallowed whole by a heavy sack or cloak, with only one central figure twisting its face outward to meet your gaze. That single point of contact makes the image feel less like a print and more like a confrontation.
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A group of cloaked figures stands in a dimly lit scene, one figure kneeling in the foreground.
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- Gift of Grover Higgins
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