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Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from "Los Desatres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 6, mounted in a bound album.
It suits you well
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1811-12; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, sulfur tint and/or lavis (direct etching), aquatint (?) and burin; posthumous trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 14.4 × 21 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 × 34.8 cm (10 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Overal (dimensions of album)l: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 × 34.8 cm (10 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Overal (dimensions of album)l: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. André Merminod and by exchange from the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wheelwright
Accession Number1973.732.6
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 126, II; Delteil 0125
DescriptionRed/brown ink, plate-tone, no bevel.
Posthumous trial proof, with numbers, before letters of title, with burin, and with lavis burnished from borders of plate and other additional burnishing by Goya (H. II).
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810". On front cover: Decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D. On back cover: Gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letter press:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Posthumous trial proof, with numbers, before letters of title, with burin, and with lavis burnished from borders of plate and other additional burnishing by Goya (H. II).
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810". On front cover: Decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D. On back cover: Gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letter press:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Signed
Signed in plate l.l.: Goya
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsEtched l.l.,: Goya; engraved u.l.: 6; l. l. :26 (poorly printed, the 2 not visable); in graphite, u.r. inside pm, 6; below image, outside pm., Bien te se está.
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (Original vote June 13, 1973).