Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

“Francisco José De Goya y Lucientes: Graphic Masterpieces from a Private Collection”, Christie’s, New York, 28 January 2014, lot 31;

Where acquired by the present collector.

L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré: Goya, Paris 1922, cat. no. 222, another impression illustrated;

T. Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs, Oxford 1964, cat. no. 268, another impression illustrated.

This work is one of four plates that were prepared for the Proverbios series but were not published until the late nineteenth century.