Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Los Caprichos
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December 4, 07:09 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux
Los Caprichos
the complete set, comprising eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797–98, a very fine, early set before the scratch on plate 45, printed in warm sepia and brown inks of different shades, some in greyish brown, displaying striking contrasts and luminous highlights, the aquatint rich and even, the very delicate half-tones printing to full effect as is indicative of the earliest examples, several plates with touches of burr, published by the artist, Madrid 1799, on laid paper, disbound, each sheet mounted and framed, accompanied by the contemporary Spanish mottled calf binding with F.G. stamped on the cover and black borders around the edges, the title and artist’s name in gilt letters on red morocco label on the spine, with marbled end papers
each sheet (approx.): 307 x 195 mm.; 12⅛ x 7⅝ in.
binding (overall): 315 x 210 by 20 mm.; 12⅜ x 8¼ x ¾ in.
We are grateful to Pim Kievit for his assistance with the cataloguing of this set.
Private collection, Germany (‘Hoeller’);
Their sale (Le Livre Illustré et la Gravure dans la 2e moitié du XIXe siècle – Collection d’un amateur Allemand (Hoeller)), Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, 20–21 March 1928, lot 413;
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (this stamp not reproduced by Lugt; see L. 1181a and 1181b), on the end paper at the front of the book;
With Antiquariaat Meyer Elte, N.V., The Hague, 1958;
Richard H. Zinser (L. 5581), his stamp on the end paper at the back of the book;
With Nicholas Stogdon, Oxfordshire, 1987;
With David Tunick, New York;
From whom acquired by the present owner, 1987.
London, Artemis Fine Arts Ltd., Francisco de Goya/Los Caprichos/Twenty Proofs and a New Census, 3-19 December 1987, no. 21.
L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles)/Tome 14 /Francisco Goya, Paris 1922, nos. 38–117 (other impressions reproduced);
T. Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, Oxford 1964, vol. II, pp. 60–158, nos. 36–115 (other impressions reproduced);
A. Eeles, N. Stogdon, and J. Wilson Bareau, Francisco de Goya/Los Caprichos/Twenty Proofs and a New Census, London and New York 1987, no. 21 (this early set cited and reproduced).
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