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Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain Against Bonaparte [Disasters of War], plate 6.

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1811-12
Medium/TechniqueEtching, sulfur tint and/or lavis (direct etching), aquatint (?) and burin; working proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 14.4 x 21 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 19.2 x 25 cm (7 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, Mrs. Isabella Grandin and the M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession number1973.721
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEtched in plate, l.l.: Goya; u.l. corner in black chalk: 6; l.l. engraved 26.
Provenance
Don Sebastián Gabriel de Borbón [b. 1811- d. 1875), probably by descent, to his son; Don Alfonso de Borbón (b. 1866 - d. 1934). Georges Provôt sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 37; probably June 1935 to Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978), Cambridge, MA; 1974, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Hofer, through R. M. Light, dealer (b. 1929 - d. 2016), Boston and Santa Barbara, CA, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)

Note: source: Philip Hofer's annotated copy of the Provôt sale in MFA library.
Disparate de Tontos (Fool's Folly) from the Disparates series
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched, 1816-19, printed about 1877