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It Suits You Well
Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain Against Bonaparte [Disasters of War], plate 6.
It Suits You Well
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1811-12
Medium/Technique
Etching, sulfur tint and/or lavis (direct etching), aquatint (?) and burin; working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 14.4 x 21 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 19.2 x 25 cm (7 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 19.2 x 25 cm (7 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, Mrs. Isabella Grandin and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1973.721
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 126, I, 3; Delteil 0125
DescriptionWorking proof, with etched signature, but before printed final number and title, and before burin and burnishing of the borders (H. I, 3).
Black ink; no bevel
Black ink; no bevel
Signed
Signed in plate l.l.
Marks
No watermark; On verso: MFA collection stamp (Lugt 282), without accession number.
InscriptionsEtched in plate, l.l.: Goya; u.l. corner in black chalk: 6; l.l. engraved 26.
Provenance
Don Sebastián Gabriel de Borbón [b. 1811- d. 1875), probably by descent, to his son; Don Alfonso de Borbón (b. 1866 - d. 1934). Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 37; probably June 1935 to 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 (b. 1929 - d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara, CA, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)
Note: source: Philip Hofer's annotated copy of the Provôt sale in MFA library.
Don Sebastián Gabriel de Borbón [b. 1811- d. 1875), probably by descent, to his son; Don Alfonso de Borbón (b. 1866 - d. 1934). Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 37; probably June 1935 to 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 (b. 1929 - d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara, CA, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)
Note: source: Philip Hofer's annotated copy of the Provôt sale in MFA library.