Title page for 'Los Proverbios' (Disparates) for the series of prints etched by Goya ca. 1815–19

Art Historical Context

Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints department, where showcase Francisco de Goya yientes' haunting *Title page for 'Los Proverbios'Disparates)*, a lithographic offset 1864 (sheet: 13 1/8 × 18 7/8 in.). This evocative print serves as the frontispiece for Goya's final major etching series, created around 1815–19 his later years of introspection and illness. Goya, a towering figure of Spanish Romanticism, etched the original *Disparates* (or *Los Proverbios*) as 22 surreal, darkly satirical images that whimsically yet grotesquely illustrate Spanish proverbs and human fol...

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 ...