Plate 10 from "Los Caprichos": Love and death (El amor y la muerte)
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 8 3/8 x 6 in. (21.3 x 15.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (29.5 x 21 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918
Accession Number
18.64(10)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Plate 10 from *Los Caprichos*:Love and Death* ( amor y la muerte)** Francisco de Goya y Luc, a pioneering Spanish artist of the late 18th century, created *Los Caprichos* 1799 as a bold series of 80 satirical prints critiquing the follies, superstitions, and vices of Spanish society during the Enlightenment era. Plate 10, *Love and Death*, captures tense, dramatic confrontation between men and women amid swords, symbolizing the perilous intersection of passion and mortality. Goya's unflinching gaze on human folly made this series revolutionary, blending dark humor with social commentary and...
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...