Gazette des Beaux-Arts Restrike Etching After Francisco Goya's "The Prisoner"

Item Details

In Plate

A circa 1867 restrike etching on paper after an 1815 work by well-listed Spanish Romanticist Francisco de Goya (1746 – 1828) titled Tan Bárbara la Seguridad Como el Delito (The Custody Is as Barbarous as the Crime), alternately known as The Prisoner. The print was published in volume XXII of French art magazine La Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The piece depicts a bearded male figure held in shackles against a shadowy background, rendered in a palette of black against cream. It includes notations of ‘Imp. Delâtre, Paris’ and ‘Gazette des Beaux-Arts’ in plate along the lower margin. It is presented under glass and layered matting in a metallic painted wooden frame fitted with hanging wire to the verso.

Condition

- slight buckling to paper inside frame; discoloration and foxing to print; slight fading and discoloration to matting with moisture stains along lower edge and lower right; edge wear, residue, accretion, scratching and scuffs to frame; no backing paper present; discoloration and moisture stains to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; plate mark measures 3.25" W x 4.0" H.

Item #

17IND182-179