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

Feminine Folly (Disparate Feminino)

1816-23
Etching and aquatint, 240 x 350 mm
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This is Plate 1 from the series Los Disparates or Proverbios.

Some of the subjects of the tapestry cartoons described as 'the pleasures of the nursery' enjoyed by grown-ups were to be transformed in Goya's late lithographs into dark, grotesque parodies.