Francisco Goya ?Los Caprichos? Engraving-etching for sale in Miami, Florida

Francisco Goya ?Los Caprichos? Engraving
Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 ? April 16, 1828) was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.??
The engraved images that make up Goya?s most important series of prints, Los Caprichos (1799), have long been recognized as one of the supreme monuments of European art. Goya, royal painter to the kings of Spain during the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries, eventually died in exile, both of his major print series having been ?donated? to the crown to protect him from the Inquisition. A believer in the potential power of reason, his works show what happens when reason is trampled underfoot by individual human follies and corrupt social customs. In these works Goya looks at his country and memorializes it as a monument to desperation, folly, arrogance, incompetence, and the need that some of his subjects have to try to control the uncontrollable.?
This is an engraved etching aquatints of a later edition on relatively thin paper with vellum finish. Printed and published in Madrid, Spain. From a later edition of 950 impressions pulled from the original plate in 1949. This image measures 4.5 by 7 inches, plate mark measures 6 by 8.5 inches with margins and has strong plate-mark on the work. This work is in excellent condition.


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