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Disparate puntual (Precise Folly); plate from the "Disparates" (Follies) series, trial proof, printed for "L'Art", 1877
Drawn and etched 1815–17; printed 1877
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint, and fine scratches, on off-white china paper; posthumous trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.5 x 35.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.5 x 38.3 cm (10 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.5 x 38.3 cm (10 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession Number98.1845
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 267, II; Delteil 0221
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped, before bevel.
Posthumous trial proof before letters, printed by Francois Liénard, for "L'Art", 1877 (H. II). With additional scratches.
This plate and three others (H. 266 [a], 268 [c], and 269 [d]) became separated from the other "Disparates" and were never published in the early posthumous printing or the Academia printing of 1864 with the title "Los Proverbios". They were instead published for the first time, with some trial proofs in various inks and papers, by the printer Francois Liénard, in the French magazine "L'Art" in 1877. The plates were never numbered or lettered, but titles were invented for the "L'Art" printing.
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 others, except "Modo de Volar" (no. 13).
Posthumous trial proof before letters, printed by Francois Liénard, for "L'Art", 1877 (H. II). With additional scratches.
This plate and three others (H. 266 [a], 268 [c], and 269 [d]) became separated from the other "Disparates" and were never published in the early posthumous printing or the Academia printing of 1864 with the title "Los Proverbios". They were instead published for the first time, with some trial proofs in various inks and papers, by the printer Francois Liénard, in the French magazine "L'Art" in 1877. The plates were never numbered or lettered, but titles were invented for the "L'Art" printing.
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 others, except "Modo de Volar" (no. 13).
InscriptionsNone on recto. Verso: collectors information.
ProvenanceBy 1888, Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., New York; 1888, sold by Keppel to Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900), Leipzig, Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)
NOTE:
Sylvester Rosa Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE:
Sylvester Rosa Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.