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Disparate Claro (Evident Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 15

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1816-19 ; printed about 1848–54
Medium/TechniqueEtching, burnished aquatint, salt aquatint, lavis, and tonal scratches; posthumous impression
DimensionsPlatemark: 24.4 x 35.2 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 26.5 x 37.2 cm (10 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession number31.1236
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ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptions1.r. in red chalk, "15"; below, graphite cataloguing notations and descriptions.
ProvenancePhilippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris, stamp (L. 413) sale of April 27, 1876 by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, (probably lot. 461, group of 12 Proverbios). Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased by MFA, 7/1/1931
Disparate Claro (Evident Folly); from the "Disparates" series, published as Los Proverbios, plate 15
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848-1854
Giant; from the "Disparates" series, plate 4
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848 - 54
Dancing Giant; from the "Disparates" series, (Proverbios plate 4)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1816–19; printed about 1848–54
Disparate Pobre (Poor Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 11
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1848–54
Woman Carried off by a Horse; from the "Disparates" series, plate 10
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815–17; printed about 1863–64