Cleveland Museum of Art
A Gift for the Master, Plate 47
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 133651
From LinkedCulture
What kind of gift do you bring the Devil? In this 1799 etching and aquatint by Francisco de Goya, grotesque witches crowd a dark, almost formless space, pressing forward to offer a small infant-like figure toward a hooded, coldly watchful presence in the upper right. Plate 47 from his Los Caprichos series, one of 80 prints, Goya frames the ritual using the language of courtly ceremony, calling it simply a gift for the master. The series remains one of the most biting visual critiques of superstition, church power, and social corruption ever made.
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A group of grotesque figures is depicted in a dark, eerie scene.
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- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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