Blind Singer Ca. 1824–28 (published second half of the 19th century) Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This is one of four etchings closely related to drawings Goya made in Bordeaux. Here, a blind man sits in the foreground playing the guitar and singing. The contorted faces of his audience can hardly be made out in the background, because the aquatint has been darkened by cross-hatching in etching. Goya had explored the subject of a blind musician and his audience in a design for a tapestry, reproduced in an early etching on view in the first gallery of this exhibition. But the att

Blind Singer Ca. 1824–28 (published second half of the 19th century) Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This is one of four etchings closely related to drawings Goya made in Bordeaux. Here, a blind man sits in the foreground playing the guitar and singing. The contorted faces of his audience can hardly be made out in the background, because the aquatint has been darkened by cross-hatching in etching. Goya had explored the subject of a blind musician and his audience in a design for a tapestry, reproduced in an early etching on view in the first gallery of this exhibition. But the attractive passersby of that scene have been replaced here by demonic faces emerging from a dark Blind Singer. Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux). Ca. 1824–28 (published second half of the 19th century). Etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin on laid paper. Prints

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