Advanced Search 
A False Bacchus Crowning Some Drunkards
Bacchus (The Drunkards)
A False Bacchus Crowning Some Drunkards
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
After: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
After: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
1778
Medium/Technique
Etching; completed plate; on off-white wove paper.
Dimensions
Platemark: 32 x 43.7 cm (12 5/8 x 17 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.7 x 39.3 cm (12 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 30.7 x 39.3 cm (12 1/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1698
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 004, III, 19th c. impression ; Delteil 04
DescriptionFrom the completed plate, before bevel, 19th century impression (H. III, 1 "first edition" is erroneous because of wove paper); Black ink, slight plate tone;
Platemark: trimmed to image within pm.; Mod.-textured, medium, off-white wove paper
Platemark: trimmed to image within pm.; Mod.-textured, medium, off-white wove paper
InscriptionsInscription: Etched below image: "Pintura de Don Diego Velazquez con figuras del tamaño natural en el Real Palacio de Madrid, que representa un BACO fingido coronando algunos / borrachos: dibujada y grabada por D. Francisco Goya, Pintor, Año de 1778" Later inscriptions:
ProvenanceValentín Carderera y Solano (?), Madrid (1796-1880); Sir William Stirling (later Stirling-Maxwell), Bart of Keir (1818-1878); Brigadier-General Archibald Stirling, of Keir; Colnaghi, London; Purchased by MFA, Boston (Lugt 282), through Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984); Purchased Sept. 13, 1951.