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Plate 50 from "Los Caprichos": The Chinchillas (Los Chinchillas), Francisco de Goya

Plate 50 from "Los Caprichos": The Chinchillas (Los Chinchillas)

Plate 50 from "Los Caprichos": The Chinchillas (Los Chinchillas) (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1799
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, burin
Dimensions
20.3 × 14.8 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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