Sujet

Porque esconderlos?; Los Caprichos, pl.30, 1799. Creator: Francisco Goya.

Légende

Porque esconderlos?, (Why hide them?), Plate 30 from 'Los Caprichos', 1799. 'The answer is simple: because he doesn't want to spend them [ie the money bags]. And even though he is eighty years old and cannot live for another month, he still fears that he will outlive his money. Such are the miscalculations of greed'.

Date

1799

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A46_103

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51.1Mo (7.8Mo) / 30.5cm x 42.0cm / 3600 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male man men age laughing arts country Spain Spanish money finance art guy elderly greed text location century laughter print concept greedy money bags series B&W lettering avarice parody engraved engraving ridiculing money bag black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century etched satire satirical aquatint etching old age etching satire Francis Francisco Goya Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes De Goya Francisco De Goya Goya Francisco Los Caprichos drypoint Goya Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Francisco Jose de Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Goya y Lucientes Francisco Jos? de Royal Academy of Arts