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Disparate Puntual (Foolish precision),
ca. 1815–17, printed 1864
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746–1828; born Fuendetodos, Spain; died Bordeaux, France
Published by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spanish, founded 1744
Published by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spanish, founded 1744
2010-153
Goya reserved his most scathing and haunting social commentaries for his print series. Between 1815 and 1824, he developed a group of twenty-two etchings and aquatints that he referred to as Los disparates (The Follies), an enigmatic series of prints that pessimistically reflect on the chaos of Spanish society at the time. In Disparate puntal (sure or precise folly), Goya depicts a crowd gawking at what they take to be a miracle but is only a circus trick; in Disparate fúnebre (Funeral folly), he contemplates life after death in a dark image of a ghost rising from a corpse to join a host of waiting spirits.
Information
Title
Disparate Puntual (Foolish precision)
Dates
ca. 1815–17, printed 1864
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 21.8 x 32.5 cm. (8 9/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 27.7 x 38.3 cm. (10 7/8 x 15 1/16 in.)
frame: 46 × 61.2 × 2.5 cm (18 1/8 × 24 1/8 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Charles A. Ryskamp
Object Number
2010-153
Place Made
Europe, Spain, Madrid
Reference Numbers
Delteil 221; Harris 267
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Una reïna del circo (The Queen of the Circus)
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Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1906-1930).
, nos. 38–119 (illus.) - Tomás Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1964)., nos. 36–115
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2010," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 70 (2011): p. 69-110., p. 97
