Goya, bare copper

2023-06-02 15:38:15
In November 2022, ABC published an extensive report on these same pages about the beginning of the process of restoring the plates of Goya’s prints, the pinnacle of universal engraving, which had been undertaken by the National Chalcography of the Academy of Fine Arts. This institution treasures in its collection 228 matrices of the Aragonese master’s prints: all, except four of the ‘Disparates’, which are in the Louvre, thanks to the bad arts of the Paul Prouté gallery in Paris, intermediary of the owners, that, after accepting the purchase by the Academy for 600,000 euros, backed down, skipping the agreed agreement. In the workshops of the National Chalcography they were stamped along… See More
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