FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828), You understand? Well, as I say..eh! Look out! Otherwise…(¿Està Vmd…pues, Como digo..eh! Cuidado! Si no!...) Plate 76 from: Los Caprichos

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
You understand? Well, as I say..eh! Look out! Otherwise…(¿Està Vmd…pues, Como digo..eh! Cuidado! Si no!...)
Plate 76 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 good contrasts and well-burnished highlights, framed
Plate: 8³⁄₈ x 5⁷⁄₈ in. (213 x 149 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 113; Harris 111

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Prado manuscript: ‘His military stripes and cane make this former military man believe in his natural superiority. He abuses the calling which has been confided in him. He bores everyone he meets, acting superior, insolent and vain with those who are less important while seeming beaten down and vile (at the same time) with those who are more important.’

‘The Ayala and Biblioteca Nacional texts are identical and sum up the principle ideas of that of the Prado: ‘Presumptuous (former) military men, blown up with gout and hernias, talk big in front of cripples, something they would not be doing when faced with enemies’.

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 178.