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FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Los Chinchillas.
Aquatint and etching, circa 1799. 255x150 mm; 8¼x6 inches, wide margins. First edition. From Los Caprichos. A very good, dark and early impression, with the burnished highlights on the "prisoner" figures and all the aquatint tones distinct.
Goya's (17456-1828) commentary on this image, the drawing for which is in the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, reads, "He who hears nothing, knows nothing and does nothing, belongs to the numerous family of the Chinchillas, which has always been good for nothing." Delteil 87; Harris 85.
