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Creator
Francisco GoyaSpanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828) · 1746–1828
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- 1797 - 1799
- Medium
- paper
- Culture
- Spain
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Object ID
- RP-P-1921-2061
From LinkedCulture
A donkey in a doctor's robe bends over a dying patient, pressing a hoof to the sick man's wrist as if taking a pulse. This etching and aquatint is plate 40 of Francisco de Goya's Los Caprichos, made between 1797 and 1799 in Spain. The caption below reads "Of what illness will he die?" - and Goya's answer is clear. The donkey, his recurring symbol of ignorance, suggests the doctor himself is the greatest danger in the room.
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