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Several series were pulled from the plates after Francisco de Goya's death. The king accepted, and the plates went to the Museo de Calcografía Nacional Madrid. In 1803 Goya offered the plates and the remaining prints to King Charles IV (1788–1808) with the request that his son be granted a pension. The title of the drawing, with which Goya makes fun of aristocrats addicted to tradition, is: "Back to his grandfather." An elegantly dressed donkey is leafing through a stud book that only shows pictures of other donkeys. In the frequently occurring figure of the donkey (which Goya often stands for the aristocracy) this greed is paired with stupidity. The men are hunchbacked and crippled, while the prostitutes sit “stiff and upright on high chairs, blasé and reluctant”, often “with an evil glint in their eyes” like in a showcase. Jan Kott, who sees parallels to the bestiary in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream, interprets the cycle as an expression of animal-like sexuality and greed: everything is "touching, sucking, grasping, clutching". Goya, on the other hand, had denied that personal attacks were meant. Many of Goya's contemporaries understood the Caprichos as direct satire and enjoyed identifying allegedly portrayed people. But as the moral images of contemporary society with numerous allusions and charged symbolism, “saturated with an erotic atmosphere and biting satire”, the cycle was considered extremely dangerous by contemporaries, so that Goya quickly stopped selling the sheets. The carefree title of the series of pictures, which he presented as the product of creative imagination, did not suggest the relentless social criticism behind it. In 1799 Goya announced the appearance of this series of 80 etchings under the title Caprichos in a Madrid daily newspaper. The papers address current problems: poverty, prostitution, superstition, arrogance of class, abuse of clerical authority by the inquisition and the brutality of maintaining power by the nobility and clergy. The dualism of reason and imagination - hallmarks of Capriccio - characterizes this first of his etching cycles, which Goya was 51 years old when it was created in 1797. He retired from his public office and tried to sell his prints himself on the open market. From then on Goya no longer concentrated on court life and its desire for representation, but developed an increasingly socially critical character and dealt with the political and social circumstances of his time. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.In 1792 the court painter Goya fell seriously ill - speculations range from syphilis to lead poisoning - which led to lifelong deafness and also to a turning point in his artistic work.
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