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Los Chinchillas (The Chinchillas). Plate 50 of "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1797–98, printed later
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, and burin (Falsified proof)
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.2 x 14.5 cm (7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.): Sheet: 31.5 x 24.2 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.505
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 085, falsified proof; Delteil 087
DescriptionFalsified proof on 18th c. paper with number and letters not inked. The paper seems to be 18th c. Spanish but not characteristic of any of the Caprichos papers..
ProvenanceMarques de Casa Torres?; R. E. Lewis, Inc. San Francisco; March 6, 1963 to Eleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA (1916-2001); her bequest to MFA October 23, 2002