Disparate de Carnabal (Carnival Folly) - Plate 14 from Los Disparates

 

Francisco Goya

  1746 - 1828 (biography)

1816 -1823; printed later 

etching and aquatint 

9 5/8 x 13 5/8" platemark; 8-1/4 x 12-5/16" image 

unsigned, as usual 

100 

numbered "14" in the upper right corner, outside of image. 

Harris 261; D. 215 

buff laid, no watermark 

edition iii or iv; 1891 - 1902 

Real Academia 

DOEN109 

$1,000.00 

Alternate title and proverb: "Alegrias antruejo, que manana seras cenzia" - "Rejoice, carnival, for tomorrow thou will be ashes"; "Si la locura fuese dolores, en cada casa darian voces" - "If madness were pains, there would be shouts from every house". There is no known drawing for this print, the copper plate is in the Calcografia in Madrid