You will not escape (No te escaparas) Plate 72 from: Los Caprichos

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

You will not escape (No te escaparas) Plate 72 from: Los Caprichos

Price Realised USD 10,625

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
You will not escape (No te escaparas)
Plate 72 from: Los Caprichos
etching with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, on laid paper, a very good impression from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, the highlights still printing cleanly, framed
Plate: 8³⁄₈ x 5⁷⁄₈ in. (213 x 149 mm.)
Sheet: 11³⁄₄ x 8 in. (298 x 203 mm.)

Presumably Manuel Fernández Durán y Pando, Marqués de Perales del Río (1818-1886), Madrid.
Don Pedro Fernández-Durán (1846-1930), Madrid; with his stamp (Lugt 747b); presumably by descent from the above.
Don Tomas de la Maza y Saavedra (1896-1975); gift from the above.
With Herman Shickman Fine Arts, New York.
With Stuart Denenberg, Los Angeles.
Private American Collection; acquired from the above.

Delteil 109; Harris 107

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Lot Essay

Prado manuscript: ‘She who wants to let herself be caught never will escape.’

Biblioteca Nacional manuscript: ‘A beautiful dancer flees in vain from the many large birds who pursue her: The boldest of these or the one using the worst language, raised on the shoulders of the others, will fall on top of her, sooner or later.’

‘The word ‘pajarracos’, which we have translated literally as ‘large birds’, also has a colloquial meaning, probably meant here, of ‘low, cunning, designing fellows.’

Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 170.