Ruega por ella - Goya Capricho 31 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 31 "Ruega por ella" (Pray for her), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.
Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 31 "Ruega por ella" (Pray for her), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.
The subject deals with prostitution and procuring: while a companion dresses the young courtesan's hair, the old bawd tells her rosary so that the day may prove profitable. Goya satirizes that utilitarian devotion, one of the traits by which the type of the procuress was fixed from its literary origins.
Medium: Etching, aquatint and drypoint.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Date: 1881-1886 (fifth edition; copper engraved in 1797-1799).
Source: Los Caprichos, fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; edition of 210 copies.
Dimensions: Plate mark 5.9 x 8.1 in (15 x 20.5 cm); sheet 10.2 x 14.4 in (26 x 36.5 cm).
Condition: Good impression, clean and unworn. Foxing spread across the whole sheet, denser in the margins, as it appears in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed; sheet from a copy bound along the upper edge.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 31 "Ruega por ella" (Pray for her), from the fifth edition of Los Caprichos printed between 1881 and 1886 by the Calcografía Nacional in an edition of 210 copies. Heavy unwatermarked paper, a well-marked plate mark and a clean impression in sepia ink.