Plate 76 from "Los Caprichos": You understand?... well, as I say... eh! Look out! otherwise... (¿Està Umd...pues, Como digo..eh! Cuidado! si no...)
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (21.2 x 15 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(76)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Plate 76 from *Los Caprichos***, created by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes in 179, captures the biting satire that defines this groundbreaking series of 80 prints. Goya, a leading Spanish artist bridging the Enlightenment and Romanticism, used *Los Caprichos* lampoon the follies, superstitions, and vices of 18th-century Spanish society—from corrupt clergy to ignorant elites. This plate's cryptic title, "¿Está usted ahí? Pues, como digo, eh... ¡Cuidado! si no..." ("You understand?... well, as I say... eh! Look out! otherwise..."), evokes a tense, whispered exchange among men, hinting at intrig...
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 ...