Ni asi la distingue (Even Thus He Cannot Make Her Out)

in or before 1799

Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint and drypoint on laid paper [proof before letters]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 x 15.1 cm (7 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 26.5 x 20.1 cm (10 7/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.69

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 42, 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

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, no. 74, as Ni asi la distingue (Even Thus He Cannot Make Her Out).

Bibliography

1964

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

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 74.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: Goya; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: I; at lower left in graphite in later hand: 8150118

Markings

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

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65223788

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