Plate 3 from 'Los Caprichos': Here comes the bogey-man (Que viene el Coco) 1799 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This scene of a mother staring at a shrouded figure while her two terrified children cling to her hasbeen interpreted as Goyas criticism of a repressive educational system based on fear of supernatural beings. Although a concern with poor education pervades the Caprichos, Goyas specific target here is the women traditionally responsible for passing beliefs from one generation to the next. Implicating women in their childrens ignorance and superstition, the print alludes to the bogeyman—who wears fashionably pointy shoes beneath his robe—as the mothers illicit lover. That reading would explain the contrasting expressions of the mother and her children.. Plate 3 from 'Los Caprichos': Here comes the bogey-man (Que viene el Coco). Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). 1799. Etching, burnished aquatint. Prints

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Plate 3 from 'Los Caprichos': Here comes the bogey-man (Que viene el Coco) 1799 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish This scene of a mother staring at a shrouded figure while her two terrified children cling to her hasbeen interpreted as Goyas criticism of a repressive educational system based on fear of supernatural beings. Although a concern with poor education pervades the Caprichos, Goyas specific target here is the women traditionally responsible for passing beliefs from one generation to the next. Implicating women in their childrens ignorance and superstition, the print alludes to the bogeyman—who wears fashionably pointy shoes beneath his robe—as the mothers illicit lover. That reading would explain the contrasting expressions of the mother and her children.. Plate 3 from 'Los Caprichos': Here comes the bogey-man (Que viene el Coco). Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). 1799. Etching, burnished aquatint. Prints

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