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Disparate de Bestia (Animal Folly); plate from the "Disparates" (Follies) series, published in "L'Art", 1877

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Printed by: François Liénard (French, 19th century)
Drawn and etched 1815–17; printed 1877

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, and tonal scratches; posthumous impression
Dimensions Platemark: 24.3 x 35.5 cm (9 9/16 x 14 in.)
Sheet: 29.1 x 43.6 cm (11 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number50.199
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 268, III; Delteil 0222
DescriptionBlack ink, pale plate tone. Bevel(slight)
Posthumous impression, printed by Francois Liénard, in "L'Art", 1877 (H. III).

This plate and three others (H. 266 [a], 267 [b], and 269 [d]) became separated from the other "Disparates" and were never published in the early posthumous printing or the Academia printing of 1864 with the title "Los Proverbios". They were instead published for the first time, with some trial proofs in various inks and papers, by the printer Francois Liénard, in the French magazine "L'Art" in 1877.

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 others, except "Modo de Volar" (no. 13).
InscriptionsFor first edition of 1877, in burin, 1.1., "Boya. inv. et sc." / "L'Art", b.c.
''OTRAS LEYES POREL PUEBLO. / (Autres lois pour le peuple)", l.r."Fcois Lienard, Imp. Paris"; Outside pm. b.c. in graphite "1877 Tome 2 at P. 40 with 2nd installment of article-Goya aquafortiste"*
ProvenanceL. Aaron Lebowich, Boston; gift to MFA Feb. 9, 1950