Plate 36 from "Los Caprichos": A bad night (Mala noche)
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in. (21.4 x 15.1 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(36)
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About this artwork
This Plate 36 from "Los Caprichos": A bad night (Mala noche) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) dating to 1799 exemplifies the period. Created in etching, burnished aquatint, the work demonstrates technical mastery of materials and processes characteristic of the era. As part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints, this piece contributes to our understanding of historical artistic production. Prints from this period served diverse functions—artistic expression, documentatio...
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 ...