Author: LAFOND, PAUL.- Goya.- Etching
Title: Goya. [Les artistes de tous les temps. Série C. Les temps modernes.]
Description: Paris, Librairie de l'Art ancien et moderne, ancienne Maison J.Rouam et cie., 60, rue Taitbout, 60, 1902. Large 4to. W. a total of 14 [Hors Texte] plates w. the tissue guards [:Engr. front. portrait, 8 engr. pls., 2 photo engrs., 1 lithogr. plate [FUCHS], 1 orig. etching [see note], 1 helio engr. plate and num. ills. in the text. Very nice half red mor., over marbled brds., 5 raised bands, giltlettered. (Corners rubb./bumped.). (VI, 190 pp.). (Very nice marbled endp.). (Occasionally a few foxed spots.). First and only edition. Limited edition. Opposite page 96 an etching of a beggar ['Un Mendiant'] long held to be by GOYA, but nowadays most authorities believe it to have been made by a follower or student quite close to Goya, possibly Eugenio Lucas [see Arnaiz, p. 163, Lucas' only known original print]; Delteil, app. 2.2, 'Une eau-forte originale et inédite du maître.': The other prints are made by a.o. FLAMENG, LAVALLEY, DE LOS RIOS, DEZARROIS, MANCHON, LAFOND, BRACQUEMOND, JACQUEMART, all after Goya. On pp. 99 - 157 a 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné ', followed by a 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé' on pages 158 - 186. A 'Catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographié' on pages 187 - 188;

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