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Unpublished preliminary drawing for a Disparates subject (from the collection of Mr. Philip Hofer)

Great Goya Etchings

The Proverbs, The Tauromaquia and The Bulls of Bordeaux

Francisco Goya

Philip Hofer

Copyright

Copyright 2006 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a republication of all the illustrations from The Disparates, or The Proverbios, and La Tauromaquia and The Bulls of Bordeaux, both of which were first published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, in 1969. The present edition also includes introductions by Philip Hofer, written specially for the 1969 volumes.

The 1969 editions contain reproductions of the following material (all courtesy of the owner, Mr. Philip Hofer, unless otherwise specified):

The unabridged first edition of Goyas Disparates (published in Madrid, 1864, by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, under the title Los Proverbios ), consisting of eighteen original etchings.

Rare pre-first-edition proofs of Nos. 12, 13 and 15.

Early states of the four Disparates etchings (Nos. 1922) first published in 1877 by the magazine LArt in Paris.

A preliminary drawing for a Disparates subject (first publication).

The unabridged first edition (1816) of the thirty-three basic plates of La Tauromaguia, and the first edition of the seven supplementary plates originally published by E. Loizelet, Paris, in 1876.

Three additional plates prepared for the Tauromaquia but not published by Goya (The Daring of Martincho courtesy of the Albertina, Vienna; the others courtesy of the Gabinete de Estampas, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid).

A preliminary drawing for a Tauromaquia subject.

For purposes of comparison, two plates from Philip Hofers Pepe Illo Tauromaquia of 1804.

Early impressions of the four basic lithographs of the Bulls of Bordeaux (Los Toros de Burdeos) series (in the collection of Philip Hofer) and a reproduction of the unique proof of a fifth, related lithograph (courtesy of the Muse des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goya, Francisco, 17461828.

Great Goya etchings : the Proverbs, the Tauromaquia, and the Bulls of Bordeaux / Francisco Goya ; introductions by Philip Hofer.

p. cm.

Originally published: 1969.

9780486156743

1. Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. Proverbs. 2. Goya, Francisco, 17461828. Tauromaquia. 3. Goya, Francisco, 17461828. Bulls of Bordeaux. I. Hofer, Philip, 1898II. Title.

NE2062.5.G6A4 2006
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Table of Contents

THE DISPARATES OR, THE PROVERBIOS

INTRODUCTION TO THE DISPARATES OR, THE PROVERBIOS

THE LAST OF Goyas four main print series, most often called by the public Los Proverbios (Proverbs), but also called by art historians, who have devised various names, Los Disparates (Follieswithout rhyme or reason) and even sometimes Los Suenos (Dreams), is the least known graphic work of the master, and the most difficult to appreciate or to understand. It is generally considered that Goya made the eighteen large etchings and aquatints that the series, as first officially published in 1864, contains soon after a particularly serious illness he underwent in 1819. He had just moved into a newly purchased house on the banks of the Manzanares, north of Madrida house which became locally known as La Quinta del Sordo (the house of the deaf man). For Goya was nearly totally deaf, and was seventy-three years old. His wife had died in 1811; his only son, Francisco Javier, was an idler and of little help to him; his popularity at court and among those who commissioned pictures was at a low ebb; Spain itself staggered along under the stupid and autocratic rule of one of the worst of its Bourbon kings, Ferdinand VII. Small wonder, then, that Goya was deeply discouraged and recovered from his illness with the greatest difficulty. There was little in his life, or in its prospects, to give him hope. This print series surely reflects his state of mind.