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Disparate Claro (Evident Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 15
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1816-19 ; printed about 1848–54
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, salt aquatint, lavis, and tonal scratches; posthumous impression
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.4 x 35.2 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.5 x 37.2 cm (10 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.5 x 37.2 cm (10 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1236
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 262, II, 1; Delteil 0216
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped, bevel.
Posthumous impression, from a small printing, about 1848-1854 (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, from a small printing, about 1848-1854 (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).
Inscriptions1.r. in red chalk, "15"; below, graphite cataloguing notations and descriptions.
ProvenancePhilippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris, stamp (L. 413) sale of April 27, 1876 by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, (probably lot. 461, group of 12 Proverbios). Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased by MFA, 7/1/1931