Reproduction in reverse of Goya's Sueño drawing that was preparatory for Plate 14 from Los Caprichos, 'What a sacrifice', a young woman surrounded by a group of men, which includes her fiancé, a rich hunchback
After Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish
Not on view
Susan Schulman purchased this print with a number of other impressions, several with a legal seal dated 1822 and others on modern paper. This sheet is dated 1816. For an example of this sort of paper (dated 1812) used for an inventory of Goya's property, see Juliet Wilson-Bareau, 'Goya and the X Numbers: The 1812 Inventory and Early Acquisitions of "Goya" Pictures', Metropolitan Museum Journal, no. 31, 1996, fig.1b, p.160. The pen and ink Sueño drawing that this print reporoduces is now in the collection of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (D4195). The printmaker must have had access to the drawing, one of many owned by Goya's son Javier until his death in 1854. The dating of the print is uncertain.The print is a heliogravure (a photochemical process) and a faint layer of green watercolour is visible across the image. Parts of the plate show signs of abrasion. The technique of heliogravure was developed during the first decades of the nineteenth century and became very popular in the second half of the century.
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