FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Dibersión de España (Spanish Entertainment), from: The Bulls of Bordeaux

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Dibersión de España (Spanish Entertainment), from: The Bulls of Bordeaux
crayon lithograph with scraper
1825
on wove paper, without watermark
a very fine impression of this important, early lithograph
from the edition one hundred, printed by Gaulon, Bordeaux, 1825
printing richly and with luminous contrasts
with margins
some tiny rust marks and a few small repairs
generally in good condition
Image 300 x 410 mm.
Sheet 330 x 445 mm.
Provenance
Gabriel Cognacq (Lugt 538d), Paris (1880-1951); his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot (exp. M. Rousseau), 23-24 February 1953, lot 291 (part of the full set of four). (Fr. 765)
Paul Prouté (1887-1981), Paris (Lugt 2103c); presumably acquired at the above sale.
Literature
Delteil 288; Harris 285
Mark P. McDonald, Renaissance to Goya – Prints and Drawings from Spain, London, 2012, p. 268 (another impression illustrated).
Mark P. McDonald, Goya's Graphic Imagination, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2021, n. 103, p. 286-7 (another impression illustrated).

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