ID 1548146
Los 951 | FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Schätzwert
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Le Descañona, plate 35 from: Los Caprichos
etching with burnished aquatint
1797-98
on laid paper, without watermark
Harris' state I.2 (of three)
a brilliant, early working proof
extremely rare, possibly the earliest known impression of this plate, before the edition published by the artist in 1799 and before the printed title and plate number, these added in pen and brown ink by the hand of the artist
printing sharply, with bright highlights and considerable inky relief
trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a blank border outside the image
in good condition
Sheet 21,4 x 14,7 cm. (8 ½ x 5 ¾ in.)
Provenance
Dr. Josef Hupka (1875-1944), Vienna (without stamp and not in Lugt; according to Delteil, Harris and Kornfeld).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 7 June 1978, lot 360.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré: Francisco Goya, Paris, 1922, no. 72 (this impression cited; another ill.).
T. Harris, Goya - Engravings and Lithographs - Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, no. 70, p. 107 (this impression cited; another ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997 – March 1998 (no cat.).
| Angewandte Technik: | Aquatinta, Radierung |
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| Material: | Acrylglas, Kunststoff |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Druckgrafik & Multiples |
| Angewandte Technik: | Aquatinta, Radierung |
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| Material: | Acrylglas, Kunststoff |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Druckgrafik & Multiples |
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