May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA
Margarita de Austria.

Etching, 1778. 375x313 mm; 14 3/4x12 3/8 inches, wide margins. First edition, before the bevel of the plate and before the second edition (also before the bevel) which was printed in a "pale, grayish sepia ink," according to Harris. A superb impression of this scarce, early etching with strong contrasts.

After a painting by Velázquez. According to Harris, the first edition of this print, pulled at the Calcografía, Madrid, in 1778-79, appears "to have been small." Delteil 7; Harris 6.