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Disparate volante (Flying Folly)

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Description

The first of several visions of flight in the series shows an abduction that vaguely recalls similar scenes from mythology and literature: a monstrous winged horse with the ugly, grinning head of a bird of prey is shown carrying a human couple into the eternal darkness of space. Gripped tightly around the waist, her arm raised in a desperately futile plea for help, the woman struggles to escape her captor. (TD 2024, translation Büro LS Anderson, Berlin)

Material/Technique

Material: Paper/Technique: Etching, aquatint

Literature

  • Ewald Gäßler (1990): Francisco de Goya: Radierungen nach Velazquez, Los Caprichos, Los Desastres de la Guerra, La Tauromaquia, Los Disparates. Oldenburg, S. 163f., Nr. 215
  • Tomás Harris (1964): Goya : engravings and lithographs. Oxford, Bd. II, S. 380f., Nr. 252
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Published Published
1864
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Madrid
Printing plate produced Printing plate produced
1815
Francisco Goya
Printed Printed
1864
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Madrid
Bought Bought
1987
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
Brunswick
1814 1989
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

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