A Caza de Dientes

Goya, Francisco

139030 Goya, Francisco A Caza de Dientes (Out Hunting for Teeth) c. 1799 Delteil 49; Harris 47 8 1/2'' x 6'' Etching, burnished aquatint on laid paper. Plate 12 from "Los Caprichos" (The Caprices). From the tenth edition limited to 170 sets of the 80 etchings. Printed in the Calcografia for the Real Academia between 1918 and 1928. Los Caprichos, collection of eighty prints, took Francisco Goya from a reproductive etcher and court painter to the father of modern art. Goya began sketching Los Caprichos shortly after an illness that began in 1792 and that left him deaf five years later. His physical weakness brought on a burst of artistic creativity, which resulted in eighty prints critiquing the social culture of Spain in the eighteenth century. Goya was lucky to be protected by King Carlos IV because without this protection he would have faced the wrath of the nobility and the Church, which was busily carrying out the Inquisition. Goya was the first and greatest satirist, calling attention to all seven of the deadly sins and how they each were alive and active in Spain. He drew donkeys acting like counts and kings, and showed that men were no better than the goblins that they so feared. Goya produced a metaphorical mirror through his art for Spain to look in, and eighteenth century Spain did not always like what she saw. Shortly after Los Caprichos was published, a commentary on the prints was produced and sent to neighboring villages of Madrid. This commentary allowed those who did not have access to the prints themselves to gain an understanding of the controversy surrounding Goya's work. Today, art historians have compiled surviving pieces of the commentary into what is now referred to as the "Prado manuscript". The Prado manuscript offers insight as to Goya's thoughts when creating Los Caprichos. From the Prado manuscript, the commentary on Plate 12 reads, "People believe that the teeth of hanged men are very important to sorcery; that without them it cannot succeed. What a pity that the people should believe such nonsense."

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