Estan calientes - Goya Capricho 13 - Original Etching, 5th Ed. 1881-86
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Estan calientes» (They are hot), number 13 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. Four friars devour their food greedily in a dim refectory, one of the most quoted anticlerical satires of the series.
Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Estan calientes» (They are hot), number 13 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. Four friars devour their food greedily in a dim refectory, one of the most quoted anticlerical satires of the series.
Los Caprichos (1799) is Goya's first great satirical series: eighty subjects on superstition, social hypocrisy and the abuses of the clergy and of the courts. Goya ceded the coppers to the Crown in 1803, and they have been kept ever since at the Calcografía Nacional, which reissued them several times through the 19th century; this is the fifth printing.
Medium: Etching and burnished aquatint on heavy unwatermarked wove paper.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Engraver: Goya himself.
Date: Fifth edition, 1881-1886 (copper engraved in 1799).
Source: Los Caprichos, fifth edition of the Calcografía Nacional; album leaf, bound along the upper margin and with Goya's self-portrait on the cover.
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: Crisp impression of good contrast, with wide margins. Foxing scattered through the margins.
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, «Estan calientes» (They are hot), number 13 of the series Los Caprichos, in the fifth edition printed by the Calcografía Nacional between 1881 and 1886. Four friars devour their food greedily in a dim refectory, one of the most quoted anticlerical satires of the series.