Apr 28, 2016 - Sale 2412

Sale 2412 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA
Viejo Columpiándose.

Etching, circa 1824-28. 185x120 mm; 7 1/4x4 3/4 inches, full margins. Third state (of 4). Printed at the Calcografía, Madrid, for John Savile Lumley in 1859. A superb, richly-inked and early impression on heavy, laid paper, with little to no sign of wear.

We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 25; Harris 32.