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El Cantor ciego (The Blind Singer)
Blind Guitarist
Guitarist Among a Background of Demons
El Cantor ciego (The Blind Singer)
Blind Guitarist
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1824–28; printed by 1890
Medium/Technique
Etching and aquatint with posthumous (?) lavis, burnishing, burin, and drypoint; posthumous impression, before bevel; warm black ink, clean-wiped.
Dimensions
Platemark: 19 x 12 cm (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
Sheet: 31.1 x 22.5 cm (12 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 31.1 x 22.5 cm (12 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.243
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 035, II-III; Delteil 030: G&W 1829
DescriptionPosthumous impression, before bevel, printed by 1890 (death of Burty) (H. 35, II-III).; Sayre, p. 43, 2nd state.
ProvenancePhilippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris, stamp (L. 413) sale of April 27, 1876 by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, lot 702. W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); bequest to MFA (accession date April 10, 1974)