Las rinde el sueño - Goya Capricho 34 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 34 "Las rinde el sueño" (Sleep overcomes them), 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. 34 "Las rinde el sueño" (Sleep overcomes them), 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 manuscript commentaries of the Museo del Prado and of the Biblioteca Nacional read the scene as the interior of a convent in which the nuns sleep after having lain with some friars. Another traditional reading sees in them imprisoned prostitutes and, in the hooded figures of the foreground, their procuresses.
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 8.5 in (15 x 21.5 cm); sheet 10.2 x 14.4 in (26 x 36.5 cm).
Condition: Good general condition and a crisp impression, with strong aquatint contrasts. The sheet is clean overall, with isolated rust specks in the upper left and in the right margin. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 34 "Las rinde el sueño" (Sleep overcomes them), 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.