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Plate 56 from "Los Caprichos": To rise and to fall (Subir y bajar), Francisco de Goya

Plate 56 from "Los Caprichos": To rise and to fall (Subir y bajar)

Plate 56 from "Los Caprichos": To rise and to fall (Subir y bajar) (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1799
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions
21.4 × 14.9 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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