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Man Being Mocked; from the "Disparates" series, plate 17

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1848–54

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint and tonal scratches; posthumous impression
Dimensions Platemark: 24.2 x 35 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.3 x 37.3 cm (10 3/8 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1238
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 264, II, 1; Delteil 0218
DescriptionBlack/gray ink, bevel.
Posthumous impression, printed 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).
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