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Disparate de Carnabal (Carnival Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 14

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

Medium/Technique Etching and burnished aquatint; posthumous impression
Dimensions Platemark: 24.5 x 35 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.6 x 37.5 cm (10 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number31.1235
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 261, II, 1; Delteil 0215
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