When We Woke, Our Bodies Were Not Our Own
Oil on canvas, 2025
120 × 100 cm · 47.2 × 39.4 in
Artwork of the Week
Francisco de Goya
Plate 6 from “Los Caprichos”: Nobody knows himself (Nadie se conoce), 1799
MediumEtching, burnished aquatint
Dimensions21.4 x 15.1 cm
- License:
- CC0 (public domain)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918
Chosen for the week of Oct 5-11, 2026
Reading
A masked ball. In front, a woman sits with her face half covered by a mask while a man leans towards her; behind them stands a crowd in which faces and masks can no longer be told apart.
Goya gave this plate from Los Caprichos, the series he published in 1799, the title “Nobody knows himself”: here the mask does not hide a face; it asks who is wearing it.
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