id:			160085
accession number:	1997.54
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.54
updated:		2023-04-26 11:23:57.883000

Los Caprichos: The Caprichos:  A Bad Night, 1799. Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828). Etching and aquatint; sheet: 26.3 x 20 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); image: 18.9 x 13.2 cm (7 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); platemark: 21.4 x 15.1 cm (8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1997.54

title:				The Caprichos:  A Bad Night
title in original language:	
series:				Los Caprichos
series in original language:	
creation date:			1799
creation date earliest:		1799
creation date latest:		1799
current location:		
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Spain, 18th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Harris 71, IIb, trial proof; Perez Sanchez and Gallego p. 54 no. 36

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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 26.3 x 20 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Image: 18.9 x 13.2 cm (7 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Platemark: 21.4 x 15.1 cm (8 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	antique laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Engraved in plate top right "36" (which is Plate 36 from Los Caprichos); bottom center "Mala Noche"
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints
	opening date:   2000-09-17T00:00:00
	<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).

	title:		Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-03-09T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mariano Ballister
	date: 1850-99 
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	Joaquin Ballester
	date: 
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	Mariano Ballister (second half 19th century); Joaquin Ballester
	date: 
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fun fact:


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wall description:
<em>A Bad Night</em> is from <em>Los Caprichos</em> (Caprices), a set of 80 prints that satirize the vices and follies of contemporary Spanish society. Goya explored the themes of superstition and sensuality, greed and violence, and immorality and deceit practiced by men and women who appear alternately as aggressors and victims. He parodied ignorance and stupidity as well as the corruption of the church and government. Goya exploited aquatint to create a dramatic contrast of light and shade through the biting and burnishing of richly textured or velvet-smooth aquatint grains. He thus expressed the opposing forces of enlightenment and ignorance, reason and the irrational world, and suggested an atmosphere of violence and doom, best illustrated in the trial proofs like this one, printed before the first edition.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Museum Acquires Major Chuck Close Painting, 19th-century Fire Screen, Rare Prints &amp; Drawings,” June 9, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4136

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