Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated DES Estates. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would, might feel obliged to dishonor them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.

Against Nature