Cleveland Museum of Art
It is Better to be Lazy, Plate 73
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 133657
From LinkedCulture
A young woman in a white dress clasps her hands and gazes upward while a hunched man counts money and a grinning old woman brokers the deal between them. This is Plate 73 from Goya's Los Caprichos, etched and aquatinted in Spain in 1799, one of 80 prints in his savage satirical series. The title, "It is Better to be Lazy," reads as bitter irony. Goya used the aquatint's smoky, shadow-filled tones to expose the exploitation he saw rotting Spanish society from within.
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A woman in a long dress stands beside a man and a child, who appear to be in distress.
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- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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