Plate 5 from "Los Caprichos": Two of a kind (Tal para qual)
Medium
Etching, aquatint, drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in. (19.7 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in. (29.5 × 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(5)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Plate 5 from *Los Caprichos*:Two of a Kind (Tal para qual)* by Francisco de Goya (9)** Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, a pioneering Spanish artist bridging the Enlightenment and Romanticism, created *Los Caprichos* a bold series of 80 prints in 1799. This etching critiques the follies, superstitions, and hypocrisies of late 18th-century Spanish society amid political unrest and Inquisition pressures. Plate 5, *Tal para qual* ("two of a kind" ortit for tat"), wryly captures matched pairs—likely satirical figures of men and women—highlighting human flaws through Goya's incisive wit. The work r...
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 ...