Pretty Teacher!, plate 68 from Los Caprichos
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1797–1799
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.4 × 12.3 cm (7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.); Plate: 21 × 14.9 cm (8 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 20.5 cm (11 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Goya usually depicted women as either hags or young society women. Here he may be showing the latter being corrupted by the former, especially as the young girl seems to be hiding her face in shame. The title is particularly ironic, as the witch-teacher is neither attractive nor correctly positioned on the broom.
