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View at the museum ↗Out Hunting for Teeth, plate twelve from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes1797/99
- Attribution
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828
- Medium
- Etching, burnished aquatint and burin on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 18.4 × 11.9 cm (7 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 15.2 cm (8 11/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 20.7 cm (11 7/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Goya produced his Caprices , a series of 88 prints, between 1797 and 1799. Here, he satirizes love’s ability to drive a person to foolishness. A terrorized young woman stands on her toes on a ledge. With one hand she shields herself with a handkerchief, and with the other she pulls teeth from a hanged corpse, which she will use to cast a love spell. The tonal values achieved by aquatint highlight the lifeless body’s countenance as well as the young woman’s handkerchief. Goya may be referring to a traditional star-crossed romance, La Celestina , in which the tooth-potion goes awry.
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