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Merry Disparate (Disparate Alegre) Proverbios 12
Disparate Alegre (Merry Folly); from the "Disparates" series, (Proverbios 12)
Merry Disparate (Disparate Alegre) Proverbios 12
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1816–1819
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint with burnishing and scraping, drypoint, and tonal scratches with touches of chalk (working proof) lower left: possible fixative residues
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.1 x 35 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 x 35 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 x 35 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow, Dorothy and Samuel Glaser, and an anonymous donor, and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1973.702
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 259, I, 2; Delteil 0213; Gassier & Wilson 1589
DescriptionBlack ink.
Working proof, touched? Before additional aquatint and tonal scratches (H. I, 2 - no examples known to Harris).
The series was posthumously published as "Los Proverbios" in 1864.
The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs, of which this is one. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).
Working proof, touched? Before additional aquatint and tonal scratches (H. I, 2 - no examples known to Harris).
The series was posthumously published as "Los Proverbios" in 1864.
The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs, of which this is one. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).
InscriptionsUpper left in brown ink: 8; upper right in brown ink: 19; lower center in brown ink: Disparate Alegre
Provenanceby 1945, Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978), Cambridge, MA; 1974, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Hofer, through R. M. Light (dealer), Boston, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)