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Reproduction in reverse of Goya's Sueño drawing that was preparatory for Plate 14 from Los Caprichos, 'What a sacrifice', a young woman surrounded by a group of men, which includes her fiancé, a rich hunchback

Reproduction in reverse of Goya's Sueño drawing that was preparatory for Plate 14 from Los Caprichos, 'What a sacrifice', a young woman surrounded by a group of men, which includes her fiancé, a rich hunchback by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Medium

Heliogravure with traces of green watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in. (29.5 × 21.5 cm) Plate: 6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (15.9 × 11.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller, in honor of Carolyn Bullard, 2016

Accession Number

2016.772

Tags

MenWomen

About the Artist

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 17461828

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 ...

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