Object Image

'What a sacrifice', a young woman surrounded by a group of men, which includes her fiancé, a rich hunchback, copy in reverse of Goya's Plate 14 from 'Los Caprichos'

The donor Susan Schulman purchased this print with a number of other impressions of the same print, some with a legal seal dated 1822 and others on modern paper. This indicates that they were printed on a batch of mixed papers not necessarily around 1816-1822 and probably later. For an example of this sort of paper dated 1812 used for an inventory of Goya's property, see Juliet Wilson-Bareau, 'Goya and the X Numbers: The 1812 Inventory and Early Acquisitions of "Goya" Pictures', Metropolitan Museum Journal, no. 31, 1996, fig.1b, p.160.

Credit: Gift of Susan Schulman in honor of Carolyn Bullard, 2016

After 1816
Etching
29.5 x 21.5cm
2016.772
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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