Esto es lo verdadero (This Is the Truth)

1810/1820

Francisco Goya

Associated Names
Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

The image is a black-and-white etching showing two people and a goat. The male figure on the left holds an implement, possibly a spade, with his right hand. He is clothed in a tattered garment and rustic footwear. The female figure on the right has her head turned towards the man. She is wearing a long dress or robe with bell sleeves. Beside them is a basket filled with fruit, near a goat that is eating from it. The background features heavy foliage with dense trees and branches.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin and burnisher on Arches laid paper [trial proof printed posthumously in the Calcografia in 1957-58]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.5 × 21.7 cm (6 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 28 × 38.1 cm (11 × 15 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1050

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 202, State II(2) (trial proof/posthumous)

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1964

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

Inscriptions

in plate, at upper left: 82; below plate at right in graphite in later hand: 96/110

Markings

blindstamp of the Calcografia Nacional

Watermarks

Arches

Wikidata ID

Q65508423

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