Le descañona - Goya Capricho 35 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 35 "Le descañona" (She fleeces him), 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. 35 "Le descañona" (She fleeces him), 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.
Descañonar means to shave against the grain and, figuratively, to fleece. Under the appearance of a barbershop scene, a maja shaves a client who gives himself up to her while two companions celebrate the operation: Goya points at the man who lets himself be fleeced by the woman who flatters him.
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: Clean, well-contrasted impression. Foxing in the upper left margin and in the right-hand one, visible in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 35 "Le descañona" (She fleeces him), 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.