FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828), Blow (Sopla) Plate 69 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Blow (Sopla)
Plate 69 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 etching printing well throughout, framed
Plate: 8¹⁄₄ x 5⁵⁄₈ in. (210 x 143 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 106; Harris 104

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Prado manuscript: ‘Without a doubt they caught a lot of children the previous night. The banquet which is being prepared will be a sumptuous one. Good appetite!’

‘The Ayala text of 1799-1803, as usual more explicit than that of the Prado, reads: ‘Young boys are the object of a thousand obscenities on the part of old and dissipated men.’ In the preceding plate, Number 68, the subject was young women being taught to become prostitutes while here the relationships concern men and boys. In both cases, if we were to follow through an analysis, the real subject of these last two works would concern blatantly bad or mis-directed education, education which brings out the worst, rather than ideally the best in human beings and whose eventual result would be the creation of a world of witches.’

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 164.