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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: What a taylor can do!

🖼 What a taylor can do!, 1797-98
Etching and aquatint
217 × 152 cm
Madrid, Spain

Satirical energy crackles through this Spanish print showing a tailor wielding scissors like a weapon, his grotesque form dominating the composition. Goya's caustic social commentary exposes the absurdity of craft pretension and human vanity, typical of his piercing critique of Spanish society.

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E. H. Gombrich
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