Le Petit Palais presents an exhibition devoted to the masterly engravings by Francisco Goya. More than 280 works are exhibited, including 210 master prints, some unpublished. The Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, presents, for its stunning series of Caprices of the Spanish master.  Man of the eighteenth century imbued with the Enlightenment, Goya was, through his prints, the witness committed and compassionate fifty years among the darkest in the history of his country. For the painting, he knew the glory to the Court of Spain to become the first painter of the king, but it is as engraver, he found his way of expressing the deepest and most staff. Some rare pieces of the National Library of France follew the collections of the couturier Jacques Doucet, founder of the Library of art and archaeology (now the library INHA) and those brothers Dutuit, allowing a journey to the heart the intimacy of the Spanish artist. The Parisian exhibition retraces the journey of the artist, since its first test drive in 1778, to the daring Toros de Bordeaux of 1825. His prints are all demonstrations of artistic freedom that seems boundless. Les Caprices expose through Spanish society, The Disasters of War say the horror and barbarity of all wars. The Bullfighting comes as a breath, but more than the bullfighting, Goya serious both the beauty of the bitter duel between humans and animals, and death which triumphed in the arena. Finally Disparates resume the grounds of previous rounds and are a fantastic work of a radical modernity. These four series represent the highlight of this presentation. The exhibition also demonstrate the influences of the artist, Rembrandt to Velasquez, passing by Tiepolo which dominate the Spanish art scene at the time. The preparatory drawings, copper plates, several suites Test status associated with events edited, and published posthumous show for the first time in France, at this scale, the whole process of creating Goya burner , And the subtlety of his work, etching pure until aquatint. Four lithographs carried out in Bordeaux on the recurring theme of bullfighting, bear witness to the audacity of the artist, not backwards at the end of his life, before any experimentation. Finally, the exhibition highlights, through a choice of more than 70 drawings and prints, the major influence on artists Goya french nineteenth century as Delacroix, Manet and Redon.  In Lille, the Palais des Beaux-Arts presents exceptional in its entirety one of the best pieces from its collection of graphic art: the series Caprices de Goya (1799). Mysterious, the famous suite of prints anticipates syntax satirical of contemporary art. For this reason, the museum offers to testify on its current importance in presenting the artists claiming the direct influence of the Spanish master, such as Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura, English Jake and Dinos Chapman and David Reekie, German and Thomas Schütte American Rona Pondick.