1799
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Bad Night, Plate 36 is a 1799 by Francisco Goya, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This dark etching shows a man crouched on a bed, clutching his head. A shadowy figure looms behind him, its claw-like hand reaching down. The room is lit by a single candle. Goya made this in 1799 as part of *Los Caprichos*. He used aquatint to create spooky shadows. The prints mock Spanish society’s vices. This print leads to Goya’s other *Caprichos* prints.
A Bad Night is from Los Caprichos (Caprices), a set of 80 prints that satirize the vices and follies of contemporary Spanish society. Goya explored the themes of superstition and sensuality, greed and violence, and immorality and deceit practiced by men and women who appear alternately as aggressors and victims. He parodied ignorance and stupidity as well as the corruption of the church and government. Goya exploited aquatint to create a dramatic contrast of light and shade through the biting and burnishing of richly textured or velvet-smooth aquatint grains. He thus expressed the opposing…
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; Spanish: ; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
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