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RISDM 49-457-13.tif
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A Way of Flying (Modo de volar) / Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Donde hay ganas hay maña)

Description

Maker

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828), printmaker
Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, publisher

Title

A Way of Flying (Modo de volar) / Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
(Donde hay ganas hay maña)
The Proverbs (Los Proverbios)

Year

1816-1824, printed 1864

Medium

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • and drypoint on J. G. O. wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • and drypoint on J. G. O. wove paper

Materials

ink

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 24.4 x 35.2 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Watermark: J. G. O. with palmette

Identification

Standard Reference Number

Harris 1964, no. 260.III.1

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

49.457.13

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

A group of men with large artificial wings and bird-head hats flit about like giant moths in the darkness. Goya’s original title (A Way of Flying) provides no clues for interpreting this image. Even within Goya’s haunting, enigmatic oeuvre, The Proverbs are among his strangest prints. The artist began working on the series at the age of 70 and continued until 1824, four years before his death, perhaps leaving it incomplete. Published posthumously, these works greatly affected artists working in etching in the later 1800s.

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

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Tombstone

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828), printmaker
Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, publisher
A Way of Flying (Modo de volar) / Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Donde hay ganas hay maña); The Proverbs (Los Proverbios), 1816-1824, printed 1864
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on J. G. O. wove paper
Plate: 24.4 x 35.2 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 49.457.13

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