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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
El famoso Americano, Mariano Ceballos, from: The Bulls of Bordeaux
lithograph
1825
on wove paper, without watermark
a very fine impression of this rare and important print
Harris's second, final state
from the edition of one hundred, printed by Gaulon, Bordeaux, 1825
printing richly and with luminous contrasts
with margins on three sides, trimmed fractionally into the subject above
the sheet backed and with an added margin above
some pale stains and foxing, some other defects, mainly in the margins
Image 30,7 x 40,5 cm. (1214 x 16 in.)
Sheet 35,6 x 45 cm. (14 x 1734 in.)
Provenance
Private Spanish Collection; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2002, lot 20.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré - Francisco Goya, Paris, 1922, no. 286 (another impression ill.).
T. Harris, Goya - Engravings and Lithographs - Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, no. 283, p. 425 (another impression ill.).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Goya - Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen 1789-1830, October 1980 - January 1981, no. 263, pp. 297-298.
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