Feminine Folly (Disparate Feminino)
by GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de, Etching and aquatint, 240 x 350 mm
This is Plate 1 from the series Los Disparates or Proverbios.
Some of the subjects of the tapestry cartoons described as ‘the pleasures of the nursery’ enjoyed by grown-ups were to be transformed in Goya’s late lithographs into dark, grotesque parodies.