Goya etching. 'Le descañona' (She fleeces him). Plate 35 from The Caprices. 5th edition (1881-1886)
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Goya etching. 'Le descañona' (She fleeces him). Plate 35 from The Caprices. 5th edition (1881-1886)

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. 'Le descañona' (She fleeces him). Plate 35 from Los Caprichos. 5th edition (1881-1886) This fifth edition of Los Caprichos was printed between 1881 and 1886 in the Calcografía de la Real Academia, stamped in etching and aquatint and with drypoint, in soft sepia ink. The plates were beveled and the binding was done at the top of the prints. The edition consists of 210 copies. Very clean and correct tinted stamping; aquatint allows shadows to be nuanced by creating grayscale gradation and dramatic, haunting lighting. The strong paper used does not have a water mark as usual as Harris catalogs it. The original folder in which the complete collection was presented was made of cream cardboard with the portrait of Goya stamped on the cover and the Title: “Fran.co Goya y Lucientes Pintor”. 'Le descañona' (Plate 35) is part of The Caprichos. Print related to prostitution and its consequences for men and women. Like other Caprichos, Goya continues the theme of the exploitation of lustful men by unscrupulous women. The author addresses this issue through the representation of a man abandoned to prostitutes who shave or rock him. In popular parlance, women who shave or lounge refers to the activity of peeling, deception, and rendering one penniless. It is, therefore, a graphic parable in which the cunning women, now figured as barbers, skin the unwary who surrenders himself to them. Plate size: 15x21,5 cm. Paper size: 26x36.5 cm. It has rust stains that can be seen in the image. 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.
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