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A Bad Night (Mala noche.) Caprichos 36

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1797–1799

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint with burnishing (first edition)
Dimensions Platemark: 21.8 x 15.5 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 30.2 x 19.9 cm (11 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.1777
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 071, III, 1; Delteil 073;GW 0521
DescriptionGW: 0521. Completed plate, before bevel, first edition, published 1799 (H. III, 1).
InscriptionsUpper right in engraving: 36.; lower center in engraving: Mala noche.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913), Boston; 1913, by inheritance to his sister, Katherine Eliot Bullard (b. 1866 – d. 1920), Boston; 1914, gift of Katherine Eliot Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)