Collection

Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

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Object Label

The Caprices (Los Caprichos) is a set of eighty etchings created between 1797 and 1798. On view are thirteen examples of the Brooklyn Museum’s rare “trial proof” set, which is composed of early impressions of a print made by the artist prior to the published edition. In the first part of the series, Goya critiques the characters, institutions, and values of early modern Spanish society; the second focuses on bizarre and macabre imagery.

The most famous image, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos), conveys a purposeful ambiguity regarding the conflict between Spanish religiosity and Enlightenment thought: sueño may refer both to the sleep or absence of reason, and to the dream of reason (reason unchecked) that produces monsters. This idea reappears later in the exhibition in Robert Longo’s work.

Caption

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828). Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco), 1797–1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (30.3 x 20.2 cm) Other (Plate): 8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in. (21.9 x 15.4 cm) Image: 7 5/8 x 5 5/16 in. (19.4 x 13.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 37.33.3.

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Here Comes the Bogey-Man (Que viene el Coco)

Date

1797–1798

Geography

Place made: Spain

Medium

Etching and aquatint on laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (30.3 x 20.2 cm) Other (Plate): 8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in. (21.9 x 15.4 cm) Image: 7 5/8 x 5 5/16 in. (19.4 x 13.5 cm)

Inscriptions

Upper right in plate: "P. 3"; lower center in plate: "Que biene el Coco." Verso upper left in graphite: "37.33-3"

Markings

Verso stamped upper left: "BROOKLYN MUSEUM/BROOKLYN, N.Y." in rectangle (Lugt 307b)

Credit Line

A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund

Accession Number

37.33.3

Frequent Art Questions

  • How did Francisco de Goya y Lucientes die?

    Goya died of a stroke in 1828 in Bordeaux, France at the age of 82.
    Interestingly, two of the print series that he created were not published until well after his death, in the 1860s, because they were so politically controversial when he made them.
    That's heartbreaking.

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

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