¿No hay quien nos desate? (Is there no one to untie us?)

In Capricho no. 75, Goya criticizes the Catholic doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage. The owl, spreading its wings protectively or triumphantly and bearing down on the woman’s head with its talons, stands for stupidity, malice, and blindness. The bare tree indicates that the forced marriage is fruitless and dead. In plate 7 of Los Disparates, Goya will return to the subject of the agony of the unbreakable bond between husband and wife in an even more savage manner. (TD 2024, translation Büro LS Anderson, Berlin)