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Where There's a Will There's a Way (A way of Flying)
Francisco de Goyacirca 1815 - 1824
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam, Países Bajos
This print is one of the series of 22 prints (originally 18) titled ‘Los Disparates’. It is hard to describe this, the artist’s last important set of prints. They are dark prints, both literally and figuratively, related to political subjects, proverbs and the Spanish carnival. Here we see an illustration of human folly: men who fly like birds.
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- Título: Where There's a Will There's a Way (A way of Flying)
- Vida del creador: 1746 - 1828
- Nacionalidad del creador: Spanish
- Sexo del creador: Male
- Lugar de nacimiento del creador: Fuendetodos, Spain
- Lugar de fallecimiento del creador: Bordeaux, France
- Fecha de creación: circa 1815 - 1824
- Dimensiones físicas: w327 x h217 mm
- Original Title: Donde hay ganas hay mana (Modo de Volar)
- Additional Artwork Information: The museum possesses three of the four large, extant series of prints by the celebrated Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and eight of eighty sheets from his earliest series, Los Caprichos. One of the Caprichos etchings shows a woman with butterfly wings in her hair and, beneath the hem of her skirt, three ugly witches flying in different directions. The Latin title of the print means ‘They have flown’. The work is an outstanding example of Goya’s skill as a graphic artist. The figures are rendered in expressive lines against a background which, through his use of aquatint, has the soft effect of a washed drawing. The many allusions to witchcraft in the Caprichos are a critique of the superstition, prejudice and social injustices of the time. In 1799, the series appeared in an edition of 300 impressions. There was little demand for them, however, and Goya withdrew them from public sale soon after their release. This is the most important of his prints in the collection. It is a proof made before the title was engraved on the plate. Goya wrote a provisional title in red chalk at the bottom of the sheet: La acen bolar (‘They make her fly’). He subsequently scored it out and replaced it with the present title, in brown ink.
- Engraver: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Tipo: Print
- Enlace externo: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Derechos: Acquired 1935, http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/disclaimer/
- Técnica artística: Etching, aquatint and drypoint
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