Goya etching. 'Subir y bajar'. Plate 56 from The Caprices etching series, 10th edition.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. 'Subir y bajar' (To rise and to fall). Plate 56 from Los Caprichos etching series, 10th edition.. The paper is watermarked with the stamp from the Calcografia Nacional.
According to Thomas Harris this tenth edition of 1918, of which a limited edition of 170 copies of the highest quality was made, after cleaning and steeling the original plates resulting from their technical characteristics the most valued after the splendid fourth edition. Laid paper with watermark with the portrait of Gaya.
'Subir y Bajar' (plate 56) is a print where Godoy is represented in an allegorical way, who rose to power as the queen's lover. This Caprice is placed after the vanitas of the old coquette, and is in the center of a group of five prints referring to the theme of sexual perversion and excess. According to the latter, the characters represented would be the fallen ministers under the influence of Godoy; however, the intention seems more likely to suggest a general mood of political instability and demoralization due to the rapid and capricious succession of ministers.
Plate size: 14 x 21,5 cm.
Paper size: 26,5 x 36 cm.
Excellent condition
Los caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797-1798, and published as an album in 1799 (first edition). The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's condemnation of the universal follies and foolishness in the Spanish society in which he lived.
Thirteen official editions are known: that of 1799, five in the 19th century, and seven in the 20th century. Being the last one in 1970 carried out by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
1907
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. 'Subir y bajar' (To rise and to fall). Plate 56 from Los Caprichos etching series, 10th edition.. The paper is watermarked with the stamp from the Calcografia Nacional.
According to Thomas Harris this tenth edition of 1918, of which a limited edition of 170 copies of the highest quality was made, after cleaning and steeling the original plates resulting from their technical characteristics the most valued after the splendid fourth edition. Laid paper with watermark with the portrait of Gaya.
'Subir y Bajar' (plate 56) is a print where Godoy is represented in an allegorical way, who rose to power as the queen's lover. This Caprice is placed after the vanitas of the old coquette, and is in the center of a group of five prints referring to the theme of sexual perversion and excess. According to the latter, the characters represented would be the fallen ministers under the influence of Godoy; however, the intention seems more likely to suggest a general mood of political instability and demoralization due to the rapid and capricious succession of ministers.
Plate size: 14 x 21,5 cm.
Paper size: 26,5 x 36 cm.
Excellent condition
Los caprichos (The Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797-1798, and published as an album in 1799 (first edition). The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's condemnation of the universal follies and foolishness in the Spanish society in which he lived.
Thirteen official editions are known: that of 1799, five in the 19th century, and seven in the 20th century. Being the last one in 1970 carried out by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.