GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
(b. 1746, Fuendetodos, d. 1828, Bordeaux)

They carried her off

1797-98
Etching and aquatint, 217 x 152 mm
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This is Plate 8 from the series Los Caprichos.

The plate is one of Goya's particularly forceful indictments against violence towards women. The perpetrators remain anonymous; the one at the back is wearing a monk's habit. Only the woman's head is rendered in detail.




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