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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Quien se pondrá el cascabel al gato? (Who Will Bell the Cat?) (Delteil 222; Harris 268)

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Fuendetodos 1746 - 1828 Bordeaux

Quien se pondrá el cascabel al gato? (Who Will Bell the Cat?) (Delteil 222; Harris 268)


etching with aquatint and drypoint (?), before 1824, a very fine and rich impression, a posthumous trial proof before the first edition of the additional plates published in L'Art in 1877, on tissue-thin laid Japan paper

sheet: 10 ⅞ by 15 ⅛ in. 27.7 by 38.4 cm

“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.