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The Buffoon Cristobal de Castañeda y Pernia, called Barbarroja (Red Beard)


Barbarroxa
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
After: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
After: Unknown Spanish
1778–79

Medium/Technique Etching, aquatint, roulette, and burin; completed plate
Dimensions Platemark: 28 x 16.5 cm (11 x 6 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 37.7 x 26.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.232
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 012, I, 2; Delteil 013
DescriptionCompleted plate, with letters, before bevel, printed mid-19th century (H. III, 2-3).
ProvenanceW.G Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston), by whom given to MFA April 10, 1974