"...the dark paintings belong to the great Disparates.The subtlest of these, Strange Madness, plays on the precariousness of life, suggested by the branch of the dead tree, on the cadaveric face of one of the women, on the owl's face of another, on the group's resemblance to a nest of night birds, on the strangeness of the meeting, of the garrulous hand, and of the check pattern of the shawl, and lastly on sleep and night with the pallid dash of colour below that hints at the moon ...Let us not forget the part played in the story by the hand - - where fate is written - - and by the birds of night, which symbolize or accompany the Devil. The Family of Charles IV would be less disturbing if the face of the Queen did not rise above it like an owl's head."

Andre Malraux Saturn: An Essay on Goya, Phaidon Publishers 1957, page 142.

Plate 1
Feminine Folly

Plate 2
Folly of Fear

Plate 3
Strange Folly

Plate 4
Big Booby

Plate 5
Folly on the Wing

Plate 6
Foolish Fury

Plate 7
Matrimonial Extravagance

Plate 8
People in Sacks

Plate 9
Universal Folly

Plate 10
Young Woman on a Bucking Horse

Plate 11
Folly of Poverty

Plate 12
Three Gentlemen and Three Dancing Ladies

Plate 13
One Way to Fly

Plate 14
Foolishness at the Carnival

Plate 15
Pure Folly

Plate 17
Loyalty

Plate 18
Old Man Wandering Among Phantoms

Plate 19
A Familiar Folly

Plate 20
Foolish Precision

Plate 21
Animal Foolishness

Plate 22
Foolish Extravagance