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Disparate Cruel (Cruel Folly); from the "Disparates" series, published as Los Proverbios, plate 6
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848-1854
Medium/Technique
Etching and aquatint; posthumous impression, trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.3 x 35.5 cm (9 9/16 x 14 in.)
Sheet: 26.3 x 37.4 cm (10 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.3 x 37.4 cm (10 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the bequest of Horatio Greenough Curtis and the Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number1973.701.6
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 253, II, 1; Delteil 0207: G& W 1579
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped, Bevel
Posthumous impression with bevel (and rebiting or regraining, top center?). From a pre-publication bound set of 18 prints (printed about 1848). Bound in tan paper with the inscription "GOYA / Los Proverbios / Madrid hacia 1848". Sheets are uniformly slightly textured, medium, grayish cream wove, 26.4 x 40.1 cm (H. II, 1 as "Trial Proof").
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).
Posthumous impression with bevel (and rebiting or regraining, top center?). From a pre-publication bound set of 18 prints (printed about 1848). Bound in tan paper with the inscription "GOYA / Los Proverbios / Madrid hacia 1848". Sheets are uniformly slightly textured, medium, grayish cream wove, 26.4 x 40.1 cm (H. II, 1 as "Trial Proof").
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).
Signed
signed
InscriptionsSigned at left, vertically, in etching; l.r. in red chalk(not Goya), "6"; below, graphite cataloguing notations and descriptions
ProvenanceAbout 1928, Emil Hirsch (dealer; b. 1866 – d. 1954), Munich and New York; by 1950, sold by Hirsch, or by his son-in-law, Hellmuth Wallach (dealer; b. 1901 – d. 1989), Munich and New York, to Philip Hofer (b. 1898 – d. 1984), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 1973 , sold by Philip Hofer, through R. M. Light, Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 13, 1973)
[1] There is a note on the flyleaf for this set of prints (MFA accession nos. 1973.701.1-18) in Philip Hofer’s hand that reads: "Bought years ago - ca. 1928 – Emil Hirsch in Munich". It is unclear precisely what Hofer’s note means. Hirsch was a Jewish rare book dealer in Munich, who was forced to close his business in May of 1937. He immigrated to the United States in 1938. His son-in-law, Hellmuth Wallach, likewise a dealer, fled Munich in 1937 and worked with Hirsch (at Emil Hirsch Rare Books and Prints) in New York beginning in 1938. According to Emanuel von Baeyer, The Hellmuth Wallach Collection: From the Master of the Tarocchi Cards to Manet (London, 2016), p. 122, Wallach sold the set of prints to Philip Hofer. Hofer first lent them to the MFA in 1950.
[1] There is a note on the flyleaf for this set of prints (MFA accession nos. 1973.701.1-18) in Philip Hofer’s hand that reads: "Bought years ago - ca. 1928 – Emil Hirsch in Munich". It is unclear precisely what Hofer’s note means. Hirsch was a Jewish rare book dealer in Munich, who was forced to close his business in May of 1937. He immigrated to the United States in 1938. His son-in-law, Hellmuth Wallach, likewise a dealer, fled Munich in 1937 and worked with Hirsch (at Emil Hirsch Rare Books and Prints) in New York beginning in 1938. According to Emanuel von Baeyer, The Hellmuth Wallach Collection: From the Master of the Tarocchi Cards to Manet (London, 2016), p. 122, Wallach sold the set of prints to Philip Hofer. Hofer first lent them to the MFA in 1950.