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Disparate puntual (Precise Folly); plate from the "Disparates" (Follies) series, published in "L'Art", 1877

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–17; printed 1877

Medium/Technique Etching, aquatint, and tonal scratches; posthumous impression
Dimensions Platemark: 24.4 x 35.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 30 x 43 cm (11 13/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.254
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 267, III; Delteil 0221
DescriptionBlack ink, slight plate tone. Bevel(slight)
Posthumous impression, printed by Francois Liénard, in "L'Art", 1877 (H. III).

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).
InscriptionsFor first edition of 1877, in burin, 1.1., "Goya. inv.et sc." / "L'Art", b.c.
"UNA REINA DEL CIRCO / (Une reine du Cirque)" , l.r. "F'Cois Lienard, Imp. Paris"
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston)