A woman and a horse, let someone else master them (La mujer y el potro, que los dome otro), Plate 10 of Los disparates
About this artwork
Los Disparates (or Proverbios as they are sometimes called) is a group of twenty-two prints which Goya produced between about 1819 and 1823. These dark, unsettling satires correspond in mood to the works or his final years, known as the ‘Black Paintings’. There is little certain information about the prints’ intended order or their meaning. This one is probably based on an old tale in which a man, who has been turned into a horse, falls in love with a woman. He then kills her husband and abducts her. Goya showed the horse rearing on its hind legs. The animal is powerful and untamed, the embodiment of animal instinct and unbridled sexual passion. The features of the landscape behind assume the form of strange monsters.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828) Spanish
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title:A woman and a horse, let someone else master them (La mujer y el potro, que los dome otro), Plate 10 of Los disparates
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date created:Etched about 1815–1824; published 1864
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materials:Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on paper
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measurements:Plate mark: 24.50 x 35.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1959
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accession number:P 2435.11
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Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya
Goya, born in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, Spain, was an original and enigmatic artist, equally gifted as a painter and printmaker. His appointment in 1786 as painter to the Spanish King Charles IV followed a period in Madrid where he had moved from the north east of Spain. Goya's reputation was built on...