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Seated Giant

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
by 1818

Medium/Technique Aquatint with burnishing and scraping (first state)
Dimensions Platemark and sheet: 28.5 x 21.0 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number65.1296
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 029, I, 1; Delteil 035, I; Gassier & Wilson 0985
DescriptionWorking proof, first state before additional burnishing outside of right arm of giant, which reduces arm's width and lightens houses in foreground settlement (Harris 29, I, 1).
ProvenanceMid-19th century, possibly Samuel Leith, Edinburgh. Nicholas Drummond, England; July 7, 1964, Nicholas Drummond and others sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 265, to “Patch”. Private collection, Zurich. Richard H. Zinser (dealer, b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; 1965, sold by Zinser to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 13, 1965)