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Feminine Folly (Disparate Femenino) from Los Proverbiosö
ca. 181919th century
8 1/2 in. x 12 5/8 in. (21.59 cm x 32.07 cm)
Francisco de Goya, Spanish, (1746–1828)
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
Europe, Spain
Medium and Support:
etching with aquatint on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection
Accession Number:
1997.563
Goya was a consummate technician in the printmaking arena, achieving powerful emotional and pictorial effects with etching and lithography. He created four important etching series during his lifetime, including the Disasters of War and the Proverbs.
The Disasters of War, a series of 56 etchings, responded to the French invasion of the Iberian peninsula in 1808. Although triggered by specific historical events, the prints read as gripping exposes of the atrocities of war in general. Charity, from the Carleton collection, reveals the dehumanizing effect of warfare on communities. In this ironically titled image, men carelessly toss the naked bodies of the dead into a common grave.
The Proverbs, including Carleton’s Feminine Folly, is a series of enigmatic images created between about 1819 and 1824, when Goya moved to a house north of Madrid called La Quinta del Sordo, or the House of the Deaf Man. These puzzling pictures share some of the nightmarish qualities of the Black Paintings rendered mural-scale in the artist’s house.
The Goya prints came to Carleton within two years of one another. Charity was part of the Pomerat Collection Bequest, 1968; Feminine Folly was purchased by the Art Department in 1970 with proceeds from the Print Rental Program initiated in the late 1950s.
The Disasters of War, a series of 56 etchings, responded to the French invasion of the Iberian peninsula in 1808. Although triggered by specific historical events, the prints read as gripping exposes of the atrocities of war in general. Charity, from the Carleton collection, reveals the dehumanizing effect of warfare on communities. In this ironically titled image, men carelessly toss the naked bodies of the dead into a common grave.
The Proverbs, including Carleton’s Feminine Folly, is a series of enigmatic images created between about 1819 and 1824, when Goya moved to a house north of Madrid called La Quinta del Sordo, or the House of the Deaf Man. These puzzling pictures share some of the nightmarish qualities of the Black Paintings rendered mural-scale in the artist’s house.
The Goya prints came to Carleton within two years of one another. Charity was part of the Pomerat Collection Bequest, 1968; Feminine Folly was purchased by the Art Department in 1970 with proceeds from the Print Rental Program initiated in the late 1950s.
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19th Century,
aquatint (printing process)*,
aquatints (prints)*,
etching (printing process)*,
etchings (prints)*,
paper (fiber product)*,
photoaquatint (process)*,
prints (visual works)*,
Spanish*
- 19th Century
- aquatint (printing process) - A printing process in which resin or other substance is applied to a plate to make a porous ground, and the plate is then heated and etched, producing a range of tonal value; often combined with line work.
- aquatints (prints) - Prints produced from designs created by the aquatint process, by which a printing plate is covered with a coating and etched so as to create a range of tonal values, often combined with line work.
- etching (printing process) - Intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate; the plate is then exposed to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed, to create lines and dark areas. For the single step of exposing the plate to acid, use "biting."
- etchings (prints) - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- photoaquatint (process) - A variant of photogravure in which the plate is dusted with rosin to create an irregular grain pattern with enhanced ink-holding capabilities.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
- Spanish - Refers to the culture of the modern nation of Spain, or in general to the cultures that developed on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It also refers to the cultures that developed under the influence of colonists from Spain and their descendants, especially those cultures in Latin America.
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