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Soldiers Frightened by a Phantom [Disparate de Miedo] (Folly of Fear); from the "Disparates" series, posthumously published as Los Proverbios, plate 2
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–19; printed about 1863–64
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis (?), emery stone, and tonal scratching; on wove paper with half-palmette watermark; posthumous trial proof for the first edition.
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 203
DescriptionDark brown ink, plate tone, with bevel
Posthumous trial proof before the first edition for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-64 (H. II, 2, with horizontal scratch through phantom).
The first edition with the title of Los Proverbios was published in 1864,
The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from Goya's manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, including this one, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).
Posthumous trial proof before the first edition for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-64 (H. II, 2, with horizontal scratch through phantom).
The first edition with the title of Los Proverbios was published in 1864,
The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from Goya's manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, including this one, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).
Marks
Watermark: half-palmette
InscriptionsGraphite cataloguing notations and descriptions by a later hand
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)