No one has seen us

In a wine cellar four friars are drinking opulently in front of a barrel of wine. Three of them, who are clearly illuminated, face the viewer, while another in the foreground has his back turned and holds a large glass in one of his hands. In the background a ghostly figure can be made out, covering his head with a hood and looking on with pleasure.

The lines of the etching are very marked and only one wash has been used. Goya also uses touches of burin to reinforce the engraved lines.

The manuscript in the National Library gives the following interpretation for this engraving: "The priests and friars take brave gulps when no one sees them; but the world knows it well. The abbé's glass is of good make to indicate the greater disorder in the clergy".

In this print, the Aragonese painter continues the criticism of the life of certain sectors of the Church that he had already deployed in the preceding engraving, Caprice no. 78, Dispatches, which awakens. In many convents and monasteries the days went by carefree and in the midst of great comforts paid for by the taxes paid by the people.