'The custody is as barbarous as the crime' (Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito)
ca. 1815 (published after 1867)
Medium
Etching, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (11 × 8.8 cm) Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 13/16 in. (15.1 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.42.1
Tags
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Gazette des Beaux-Arts · 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 ...