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Name
Goya_collection
Contract Address
Token ID
29959971844286247442585611845424938891591569273071629154266420770143898731059
Token Standard
ERC-1155
Description
Nothing here seems normal: two women dressed in what looks like a cape covering their hair and upper body but leaving their pale legs uncovered. However, compared to their extravagant head gown –an inverted chair–, their choice of clothing becomes secondary. The women are accompanied by men who seem to ridicule them but approach them nonetheless. The scene has been interpreted many times and in many different ways. Some allude to the pun on the word “asiento,” which in Spanish means both “chair” and “sense”, and suggest that Goya ridiculed, just like the men in the background, the women who only have asiento (sense) in the head if they put asiento (chair) on their head. Others refer to Goya’s criticism of prostitution: to understand this, let’s assume that the two lightly dressed women work in this field given their revealing choice of clothing and how one of the men approaches the seated woman. In Spanish, settling down can be expressed as “sentar la cabeza,” which literally translates to sit down the head. So putting one and two together, this scene is Goya’s way to say that prostitutes can only settle down or sit down their heads when they put the chair on their head – in other words, never. In a third interpretation, Goya alluded to women’s lower standing in society. A topic that still is relevant today, 'They already have a seat' illustrates society’s stance that women already do have a seat among men, in other words, equality. Still, it is evident that their “seat” looks a lot different, is less practical, and comes at a more significant burden.
Properties
Background
pale linen
Medium
etching and aquatint
Date
1799
Series
Los Caprichos
Paper
ivory laid paper
Artist
Francisco de Goya
Owner
Artemundi
Location
Arévalo, Ávila, Spain
Museum
Collegium
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