About the Artwork
Furious Folly
ca. 1816
Francisco Goya
1746-1828
Spanish
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (24.8 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 14 7/8 × 19 1/8 inches (37.8 × 48.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
44.12
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, vertically, center left edge: Goya
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left margin: 36330 MK | C5214 (From the Burty collection | avant ( ) ( ) d'aquatinte du ( ). Inscribed, center lower edge: H 129. L'Homme renversant un viellard Inscribed, lower right edge: c. 629( )
Stamp, in black, within plate mark; lower left: A. Beurdeley (Lugt 421) Stamp in red, lower right plate edge: P. Burty (Lugt 2071) Stamp in red, lower right edge of sheet: DIA
Provenance
Philippe Burty (Paris, France)
Alfred Beurdeley (Paris, France). 1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Francisco Goya, Furious Folly, ca. 1816, etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 44.12.
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