There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios

Q: When was "There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios" created?

This artwork was created 1815/24.

Q: Is "There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios" in the public domain?

Yes, There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

1815/24

There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Medium

Etching and burnished aquatint on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 21.2 × 32.1 cm (8 3/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 35.2 cm (9 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 49.7 cm (13 1/8 × 19 5/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

129717

About the Artist

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...

There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios

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