Andarse Por Las Ramas (To go amongst the branches), Disparate Ridiculo; plate 3 from Los Proverbios

 

Francisco Goya

  1746 - 1828 (biography)

1819 -1824 (printed 1864) 

etching, aquatint and drypoint 

9 5/8 x 13 7/8" platemark 

unsigned, as usual 

from first edition of 300; 60 sets for the members of the academy and a further edition of 240 

A. Maroni's (Lugt 150B) collector's stamp in red ink, lower left 

Harris 250; Delteil 204 

antique-white wove 

first edition, before numbers 

Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando 

ANFO128 

$5,000.00 

Goya did the plates for the "Disparates" around 1816 - 20. Working proofs were pulled of some but it was in 1848 that some unevenly printed posthumous prints were pulled. This first well printed edition of 18 plates was in 1864 by the Academia, published as "Los Proverbios" This impression is from that first edition. It has the collector's stamp of A. Maroni (L150b) in red ink in the left margin. There were at least 8 subsequent editions up til 1937 on differednt papers and varying quality of printing. The subject, also known as "Extravagant Folly" or "Ridiculous Folly" shows a coven of witches in a tree (one has a beard) and were used by Goya as representatives of social decadence. Many of the proverbs can only be speculated about.