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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
El cantor ciego ('The Blind Singer')
etching with aquatint and drypoint
circa 1818-23
on pale greyish laid paper, without watermark
a fine, rich impression
probably a posthumous trial proof
before the first edition issued in Paris, second half of the 19th century
printing with burr and plate tone, most prominent on the shirt and guitar
with margins
generally in good condition
Plate 19 x 12,2 cm. (712 x 434 in.)
Sheet 21,3 x 15,2 cm. (838 x 6 in.)
Provenance
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 13 June 1968, lot 399.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré - Francisco Goya, Paris, 1922, no. 30 (another impression ill.).
T. Harris, Goya - Engravings and Lithographs - Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, no. 35, pp. 58-59 (another impression ill.).
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