Las Chinchillas - Goya Capricho 50 - Original Etching, 1881-1886
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 50 "Las Chinchillas", 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. 50 "Las Chinchillas", 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.
Two figures encased in coats of arms, with padlocks on their ears, are fed by the spoonful by a blindfolded servant. Goya portrays the idle nobility that neither hears nor reasons; the name refers to the Chinchilla brothers of the comedy «El dómine Lucas», by José de Cañizares.
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. Foxing fairly widely scattered, denser in the upper and right margins, as it appears in the photograph. Wide margins, untrimmed.
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Original etching by Goya, Capricho no. 50 "Las Chinchillas", 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.