Love and death (El amor y la muerte) Plate 10 from: Los Caprichos

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Love and death (El amor y la muerte) Plate 10 from: Los Caprichos

Price Realised USD 4,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2020

Price Realised USD 4,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2020

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Love and death (El amor y la muerte)
Plate 10 from: Los Caprichos
etching with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, on laid paper, a very good impression from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, the contrast between the two tones of coarse grain aquatint particularly effective in the background, framed
Plate: 8¹⁄₂ x 6 in. (216 x 152 mm.)
Sheet: 11³⁄₄ x 8 in. (298 x 203 mm.)

Presumably Manuel Fernández Durán y Pando, Marqués de Perales del Río (1818-1886), Madrid.
Don Pedro Fernández-Durán (1846-1930), Madrid; with his stamp (Lugt 747b); presumably by descent from the above.
Don Tomas de la Maza y Saavedra (1896-1975); gift from the above.
With Herman Shickman Fine Arts, New York.
With Stuart Denenberg, Los Angeles.
Private American Collection; acquired from the above.

Delteil 47; Harris 45

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Lot Essay

‘The etchings of Goya’s culminate a decade in which social issues such as women’s rights, prostitution, and the indolence of certain nobles were addressed in both the periodical press and the theater. They offer a critique of social crimes against the ideal order as conceived by enlightened reformers, in which social responsibility and reason governed behavior, and love governed the relations of couples. , for example, reflects condemnation of the senseless loss of life that resulted from dueling, a tradition identified with an outmoded sense of honor.’

Stepanek, S.L., Tomlinson, J., Wilson-Bareau, J., Mena Marqués, M.B., et al, , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014, p. 136.