Pretty Teacher!, plate 68 from Los Caprichos
Medium
Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.4 × 12.3 cm (7 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.); Plate: 21 × 14.9 cm (8 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 20.5 cm (11 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123828
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Goya usually depicted women as either hags or young society women. Here he may be showing the latter being corrupted by the former, especially as the young girl seems to be hiding her face in shame. The title is particularly ironic, as the witch-teacher is neither attractive nor correctly positioned on the broom.
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...