La filiacion (The Filiation)

in or before 1799

Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper [proof before letters]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.6 × 15.2 cm (8 1/2 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 26.4 × 20 cm (10 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.72

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 92, State I(2) (working proof)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mariano Ballester (1916-1981), Paris and Murcia (Lugt 1860b). Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.

Inscriptions

recto: at upper left in black ink in later hand: 54verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: 57

Markings

Mariano Ballester (Lugt 1860b) and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65223794

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