A Woman and a Horse, Let Someone Else Master Them, plate ten from Los Proverbios
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1815–1824
- Medium
- Etching with aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.2 × 31.5 cm (8 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.4 × 35 cm (9 5/8 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 49.5 cm (13 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
This darkly satirical interpretation of a popular proverb demonstrates the equally unruly nature of equine and womankind. Twisting and rearing in a desolate landscape, the horse becomes both a violent abductor and a tender savior as he tries to catch the struggling woman’s dress in his teeth before she plummets to the ground.
