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Goya worked on the series of 22 prints known as the Disparates between 1815 and 1823. They remained unpublished during the artist's lifetime. The plates were among possessions which the artist left behind in the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) when he left for France in 1824. No edition was made until the plates were acquired and published by the Academia in Madrid in 1864 with the title Proverbios, (the 'Proverbs'). Goya gave his own title to some, using the word 'disparate' or folly. It seems that he intended satires of a general nature commenting on characteristic human follies. Some relate to images of the earlier series, the Caprichos. The series includes some of the most powerful and celebrated of all Goya's images. |
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Otras Leyes Por El Pueblo
Translation: 'Other laws for the people' Etching and aquatint A group of Moors encounter an elephant at the edge of an area. They confront the intelligence and physical mass and strength of the animal with charms and a book, possibly of magic or, as the title suggests, of law. |
| Disparate Matrimonial
Translation: 'Marital folly' Etching and aquatint Surrounded by adoring half-human monsters and animals, a married couple struggles, the partners joined back-to-back like Siamese twins. The image is a cruel and pessimistic vision of marriage, the partners pulling in opposite directions, each equipped with double feet that could take them in either direction. |
