Blind singer

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1824-1828

Technique / Medium:

etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin on laid paper

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Description

From the Metropolitan Museum website: This is one of four etchings closely related to drawings Goya made in Bordeaux. Here, a blind man sits in the foreground playing the guitar and singing. The contorted faces of his audience can hardly be made out in the background, because the aquatint has been darkened by cross-hatching in etching. Goya had explored the subject of a blind musician and his audience in a design for a tapestry, reproduced in an early etching on view in the first gallery of this exhibition. But the attractive passersby of that scene have been replaced here by demonic faces emerging from a dark background.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (Guitar is wide-necked, with ten tuning pegs.)

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Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

768