Lot 78
Lot 78
FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Be quick, they are waking up (Despacha que dispiertan) Plate 78 from: Los Caprichos

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    FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

    Be quick, they are waking up (Despacha que dispiertan) Plate 78 from: Los Caprichos

    Price Realised USD 2,500
    Price Realised USD 2,500
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    FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
    Be quick, they are waking up (Despacha que dispiertan)
    Plate 78 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, with bright highlights, framed
    Plate: 83⁄8 x 57⁄8 in. (213 x 149 mm.)
    Sheet: 113⁄4 x 8 in. (298 x 203 mm.)
    Provenance
    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.
    Literature
    Delteil 115; Harris 113
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    Lot Essay

    Prado manuscript: ‘The little hobgoblins are the most agreeable and also the most accommodating people who could be found: being like a house-maid keeps them happy. They scrub over the earthen pot, cook the vegetables, they scour, sweep, and quiet down the baby; it has been greatly disputed whether or not they are devils; let us drop this idea, devils are those who occupy themselves doing bad things or who stop others from doing good things, or who do not do anything at all.’

    The Ayala manuscript presents a completely different subject for this work: ‘Monks and nuns have orgies of gluttony at night in order to be able to sing well at daytime’. The latter text as it reads would represent a direct attack on the clergy's negative ways and the secrecy surrounding their activities.'

    Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 182.
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