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Soldiers Frightened by a Phantom [Disparate de Miedo] (Fearful Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 2
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1863–64
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis (?), emery stone, and tonal scratching; posthumous trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.5 x 35.3 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 35 x 48.8 cm (13 3/4 x 19 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 35 x 48.8 cm (13 3/4 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.1791
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 249, II, 2; Delteil 0203
DescriptionDark brown ink, plate tone, Bevel
Posthumous trial proof for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-64 (H. II, 2, with horizontal scratch through phantom).
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 trial proof for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-64 (H. II, 2, with horizontal scratch through phantom).
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).
Inscriptionsgraphite cataloguing notations and descriptions
ProvenanceBy 1913, Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913), Boston; 1913, by inheritance to his sister, Katherine Eliot Bullard (b. 1866 – d. 1920), Boston; 1914, gift of Katherine Eliot Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)