Masterworks of Printmaking and Drawing
- Dürer, Saint Christopher
- Claesz, Vignette with a Sphinx
- Tempesta, Turkish Soldiers
- Goltzius, Apollo
- Ribera, The Poet
- Callot, Les Danseurs
- Rembrandt, Nude Man Seated
- Ostade, The Hunchbacked Fiddler
- Everdingen, The Dilapidated Cottage
- Piranesi, The Well
- Goya, Esto Si Que Es Leer
- Descourtis, L'Amant Surpris
- Daumier, Aspect de le la Salle
- Meryon, Le Petit Pont
- Lessore, Barge Builders
- Lalanne, Rade de Bordeaux
- Andrieux, Don Quixote Telling
- Whistler, Wheelwright
- Buhot, Dèbarquement en Angleterre
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Repetition Generale
- Cross, Champs-Elyseè
- Zorn, The New Maid
- Munch, Alte Männer und Knaben
- Delâtre, Standing Peasant
- Vallotton, La Nuit
- Kollwitz, Tod Hält Mädchen
- Matisse, La Persane
- Sloan, Romany Marye's
- Villon, La Petite Mulatresse
- Walkowitz, Two Figures Seated
- Campigli, Woman with a Veil
- Eby, The Storm
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11. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Esto Si Que Es Leer (That certainly is being able to read) |
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Esto Si Que Es Leer (That certainly is being able to read)
Etching and aquatint, 1799, 215 x 146 mm., Harris 64 iii/iii 1st edition, from Los Caprichos, pl. 29, ex collection: Charles Deering (Lugt 516). ....A fine impression from the 1st edition (1799) on laid paper with good margins, the paper evenly time toned. A small area on the head of the seated man has been scraped and a word or name inscribed in brown ink in the efface. Eleanor Sayre mentions such impressions in which contemporary buyers of the Caprichos "recognized" figures as specific people and inscribed their names on the prints. The MFA has 3 such impressions. The name here, unfortunately, is illegible.
