About this artwork
This darkly satirical interpretation of a popular proverb demonstrates the equally unruly nature of equine and womankind. Twisting and rearing in a desolate landscape, the horse becomes both a violent abductor and a tender savior as he tries to catch the struggling woman’s dress in his teeth before she plummets to the ground.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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Title
- A Woman and a Horse, Let Someone Else Master Them, plate ten from Los Proverbios
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1815–1824
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Medium
- Etching with aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 21.2 × 31.5 cm (8 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.4 × 35 cm (9 5/8 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 33.2 × 49.5 cm (13 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.3319
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/44901/manifest.json