Le Mendiant (the Beggar)
Artwork details
- Artist
- Francisco Goya
- Title
- Le Mendiant (the Beggar)
- Description
-
AN EXTREMELY RARE PROOF BEFORE LETTERS ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER.
Originally attributed to Goya, this wonderful etching was first printed in 1902.
More recent scholarship attributes this etching to Eugenio Lucas, Goya's most important follower. IT IS LUCAS' ONLY KNOWN PRINT.
An excellent impression with huge margins. In perfect condition.
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- Etching
- Edition
- unknown, but proofs before letters (like this one) are very rare.
- Signature
- Signed
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Delteil app. 2; Arnáiz p. 163
- Image
- 8 x 5.9 cm
- Sheet
- 30.7 x 23 cm
- Status
- Sold
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