All will fall (Todos Caeràn) Plate 19 from: Los Caprichos

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

All will fall (Todos Caeràn) Plate 19 from: Los Caprichos

Price Realised USD 5,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2020

Price Realised USD 5,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2020

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
All will fall (Todos Caeràn)
Plate 19 from: Los Caprichos
etching with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, on laid paper, a good impression from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, the burnished highlights still printing well, framed
Plate: 8¹⁄₂ x 5⁵⁄₈ in. (216 x 143 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 56; Harris 54

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Lot Essay

‘The satirical tone that Goya employs in the in which he criticizes prostitution is applied to both the girls and their clients, the latter depicted as plucked chickens. The artist’s comment on this drawing refers to the young men and women’s inevitable end: ‘And to think those about to fall won’t take warning from those already fallen. But there is no remedy: all will fall.’ 1

‘Goya's scene is located in the world of prostitution, symbolized traditionally by birds or by a cage. The half woman/half bird figure balanced on the globe in the upper part of the image 'draws a flock of winged men in contemporary dress, among them members of the upper class, who have flown from the light of wisdom, perceptible in the background, to the darkness of the passions. On the ground, singled out by her white shawl, an old bawd with exaggerated features looks to the heavens with a malevolent expression while her disciples, two young beauties, gleefully pluck and torture one of the victims fallen into their net.' 2

1. Website of the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
2. Stepanek, S.L., Tomlinson, J., Wilson-Bareau, J., Mena Marqués, M.B., et al, , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014, p. 160.