id:			109447
accession number:	1928.102.12
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.102.12
updated:		2023-03-04 09:29:40.691000

The Proverbs:  If Marion Will Dance, Then She Has to Take the Consequences, 1864. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828). Etching and aquatint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grover Higgins 1928.102.12

title:				The Proverbs:  If Marion Will Dance, Then She Has to Take the Consequences
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creation date:			1864
creation date earliest:		1864
creation date latest:		1864
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creditline:			Gift of Grover Higgins
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culture:	Spain, 19th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Harris 259; Perez Sanchez and Gallego p. 187 no. 12

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CREATORS

* Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Goya, Gericault and Delacroix
	opening date:   1983-01-25T05:00:00
	<i>Goya, Gericault and Delacroix</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-April 24, 1983).

	title:		Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints
	opening date:   2015-01-25T00:00:00
	<i>Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).

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The freewheeling, lascivious dancers in Goya’s composion keep time with castanets, pairs of shell-shaped wooden clappers attached to the thumb and index finger. The erotic connotations of castanets dated from antiquity, when they were depicted in vase paintings in association with the cult of the goddess Cybele and the Dionysian rites. According to Martin Mersenne’s treatise,<em> Les Preludes de l’harmonie universelle</em> (1636), castanets were used to accompany the saraband, a fast folk dance considered disreputable in 16th-century Spain. Although by the time the saraband reached the French court in the 17th century, it had become a slow, serious, processional dance, Goya refers here to the dance’s earlier, erotic origins.
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