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Disparate Volante (Flying Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 5

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–17; printed about 1863–64

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint (emery stone no longer visible); posthumous trial proof
Dimensions Platemark: 24.5 x 35.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 in.)
Sheet: 35.2 x 48.8 cm (13 7/8 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.1793
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 252, II, 2; Delteil 0206
DescriptionBrown ink, light plate tone, bevel
Posthumous trial proof for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-1864 (H. II, 2).

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).
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)