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
ca. 1830–50 (?)
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
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 ...