Cleveland Museum of Art
Until Death, Plate 55
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1799
- Medium
- etching, drypoint and aquatint
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150462
From LinkedCulture
An elderly woman primps before a mirror, piling flowers onto her head while the figures behind her can barely contain their laughter. This is Francisco de Goya's Until Death, plate 55 from his Los Caprichos series - an etching, drypoint, and aquatint made in Spain in 1799. Goya used the cover of satire to skewer vanity and self-delusion at a time when the Inquisition was still watching. The result is one of the sharpest, most uncomfortably funny images of the eighteenth century.
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A woman sits at a table, holding a bouquet of flowers, while two others look on.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund by exchange
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