Minneapolis Institute of Art
Disparate puntual, Una Reina del circo (Punctual Folly or The Queen of the Circus), from the series Los Disparates (The Follies) or Los Proverbios
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Date
- c. 1820
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
In this circus act, a woman balances on the back of a horse, which in turn balances on a slack rope. The Spanish expression, “bailando en una cuerda floja” [Dancing on a slack rope] is similar to the English expression “skating on thin ice.” We don’t know if Goya had anyone specific in mind when he made this image of a precarious situation. France, Europe
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