19th Century: Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya Lucientes    

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
Following a traumatic illness in 1792, Spanish Academy artist and court painter Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes turned his back on the decorative scenes and portraits that had built his reputation to pursue the morbid and fantastical images that would come to define his mature style. One of the most celebrated and masterful etchers in the history of the medium, Goya’s savage satirical attacks on Spanish society, the abuses of the Church, war and human nature are given vivid expression in his individual prints and four major print series: Los Caprichos, Los Desastres de la Guerra, La Tauromaquia, and Los Proverbios

Que Guerrero. (Ca. 1819)

 
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Original etching and aquatint on cream laid paper.
With the publishers address Francois Liénard, Imp. Paris as published in L'Art, Paris 1877 .
Limited edition from Sagot-Le Garrec on laid paper (one from only 320 impressions)
Plate 14" x 9.5", sheet 16.75" x 11.75".
(24,50 by 34,50 cm on plate border in a larger sheet with wide over 5 cm margins.)
 

Disparate conocido / Well-known fantasy (Los Disparatos / The Follies, plate 19, Delteil 220, Harris 266). Original etching & burnished aquatint,, c. 1819-1823.This impression was not included in the 1875 edition of Los Disparatos. It was first published in the periodical L'Art in 1877, which Harris describes as "clean-wiped" and says that "the earliest are hardly inferior to the working or trial proofs. Since Los Disparatos was never published during Goya's lifetime, the order of the plates is not certain. On the right, two giant figures (one with a sword in his hand) gesture menacingly at a group of huddled figures, all except one of whom are terrified and have not noticed that the figures are scarecrows with wooden feet implanted in the ground. One of them, aware of the unreality of their threat, whose thigh and chest are bathed in light, has lifted up his leg and is farting at them in a gesture of contempt and ridicule. Harris associates this image with the proverb, "Dos à uno, meten la paja en el culo / If two to one, stuff your arse with straw" (presumably to keep from soiling yourself; here, of course, there is no need to fear that). The title accompanying the publication in L'Art and imprinted on our impression is Que guerrero! / What a warrior!

 

A superb impression in fine condition.

Los Desastres de la Guerra
 Colección de ochenta láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua-forte / Por / Don Francisco Goya / Publicala in Real Academia de Belles Artes de San Fernando / Madrid / 1906. The first edition was published in 1863 in an edition of 500. The second edition was printed in the Calcografia for the Real Academia in 1892 in an edition of 100 impressions. Harris says that the plates were probably steel-faced before the making of this edition and notes that the edition is generally well printed but that the impressions are considerably inferior to those of the first edition. The third edition was also made in the Calcografia for the Real Academia and was printed in 1903 in an edition of 100 impressions, which Harris describes as "very inferior to the second" edition. The fourth edition was made in the Calcografia for the Real Academia in 1906 Harris describes it as "excellently printed on very suitable papers. The impressions are generally a little inferior to those of the second edition but are better than those of the third


 
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 Five single prints
from the fourth edition
 of the disasters of the war.
Excellent impressions
from the 1906 edition of Los Desastres de la Guerra,"
 
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"An Heroic Feat! With dead men!" 
 Text in the lower portion of the image reads, "Grande hazana! con muertos!"  Approximate Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
Ca.  1810-1815. Etching and aquatint.

Harris no. 159 III 4. Plate 39

 

"Everything is Topsy Turvy." 
  Approximate Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 8 inches

"Harris 162 III 4.  Etching. Plate 42

 


 
 
 
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"It Serves you Right." 
Approximate Dimensions: 5 x 7 7/8 inches,
Etching with aquatint

Harris 126 III 4. Plate 6

"Even Worse."
  Text in the lower portion of the image reads: Tante Y Mas
Signed "Goya 1810." 
Approximate Dimensions: 5 x 7 7/8 inches.
Harris 142 III 4.  Etching. Plate 22

"Nov (do these) Either." 
  Approximate Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Text in the lower portion of the image reads: Tampoco

"Harris 130 III 4.  Etching. Plate 10

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