Greed Breaks the Bag (La codicia rompe el saco)
Dodge Fund, 1939
Catalogue
- Year
- 1807
- Dimensions
- 7-5/16 x 5-1/8 in. (18.6 x 13.0 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Leonardo Alenza
Artist
Painting
Leonardo Alenza was a Spanish painter and printmaker active in the early 19th century. Known for satirical and genre scenes rendered in oil and lithography, his work often critiqued social and political conditions of Restoration Spain with dark humor and psychological acuity. He died in Madrid at age 38, leaving a relatively small but influential body of work that anticipated later developments in Spanish social realism.
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Record
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- Leonardo Alenza
- Year
- 1807
- Dimensions
- 7-5/16 x 5-1/8 in. (18.6 x 13.0 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1807-012680
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
- verified