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Giant; from the "Disparates" series, plate 4


The Dancing Giant
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–17; published 1864

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis and/or emery stone, tonal scratches, and burin; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 24.7 x 35.8 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 33.5 x 49.7 cm (13 3/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.224d
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 251, III, 1; Delteil 0205
DescriptionBrown/black ink, plate tone, Bevel
From first posthumous edition, before number (H. III, 1).
Posthumous first edition published 1864 (Madrid, Real Academia de San Fernando). Title page and 18 prints of etching and aquatint, plates bevelled, before the number, and bound in green leather with gold letters, 34.8 x 50.7 cm. Cover inscribed in gold: LOS PROVERBIOS / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. Sheets are moderately textured, medium to moderately heavy, cream wove paper, many with the watermark J.G.O. and/or half-palmette.

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).
ProvenanceWilliam Bell Scott (no stamp)(1811-1890), England ; W.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955), Boston; bequest to MFA April 1974