FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828), Correction (Correccion) Plate 46 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Correction (Correccion)
Plate 46 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 burnished highlights particularly brilliant, framed
Plate: 8³⁄₈ x 5³⁄₄ in. (213 x 146 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 83; Harris 81

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Biblioteca Nacional text: ‘Malicious people of all types and conditions, shop-keepers, friars and villains, appear to desire correction (in their lives) when some monk is preaching: but soon they go back to their old ways because we do everything by imitation.’
The insinuation is that when the various religious orders have finished speaking, they thereupon fall back into their old decadent ways as does the public which does everything ‘by imitation’.

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 118.