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It Suits You Well
Bien te se está. (It serves you right); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte. And other emphatic caprices. [Disasters of War], plate 6.
It Suits You Well
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1811-12
Medium/Technique
Etching, sulfur tint and/or lavis (direct etching), aquatint (?) and burin; working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 14.4 x 21 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 18.8 x 30.1 cm (7 3/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 18.8 x 30.1 cm (7 3/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1626
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 126, I, 2; Delteil 125
DescriptionBlack ink. No bevel.
Working proof, with etched signature, but before printed numbers and title, and before burin and burnishing of the borders (H. I, 2).
Working proof, with etched signature, but before printed numbers and title, and before burin and burnishing of the borders (H. I, 2).
Marks
No watermark.
On verso, MFA Collection stamp (Lugt 282), without acc. number
On verso, MFA Collection stamp (Lugt 282), without acc. number
InscriptionsL.l., etched l.l., Goya; u.l. in black ink: 22, u.r. in black chalk: 6.
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)