FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828), There it goes (Allá vá eso) Plate 66 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
There it goes (Allá vá eso)
Plate 66 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 veil of aquatint on the upper half of the central figure still present, framed
Plate: 8¹⁄₈ x 6¹⁄₂ in. (206 x 165 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 103; Harris 101

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‘In all the ‘witches’ series, Goya constantly comes back to the idea of "badness" or "evil" being passed on from one witch or one beast to another. This moving scene vaguely floats either far above or very close (Goya does not inform us) to a grandiose landscape below. The viewers of this print have no point on which to hold and find themselves also floating through a Tiepolesque sky in which are found one apparently crippled witch carrying another, united together in carrying on some sort of evil activity. As to exactly what that "evil activity" might be and what this print describes, the Madrid Biblioteca Nacional text states: "The old witches are those who break loose (the souls of) young girls, who push them into flying (becoming prostitutes) and teach them to be serpents (or "shrews") and to take money out of pockets (of their eventual clients).’

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 158.