Artist Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828
Artist after Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, Spanish, 1599-1660
Title
  • A False Bacchus Crowning Some Drunkards
  • Bacchus Crowning a Drunkard Soldier (alternate title)
  • Un Baco fingido coronando algunos borrachos (alternate title)
Date ca. 1778
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 12 5/8 × 17 1/8 inches (32.1 × 43.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 5/8 × 20 7/8 inches (42.2 × 53 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S556
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamp, in brown, verso: J. PEOLI (Lugt 2020)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image: Pintura de Don Diego Velazquez con figuras del tamano natural en el Real Palacio de Madrid, que representa un BACO fingido coronado algunos borrachos: dibujada y grabada por D. Francisco Goya, Pintor Ano de 1778.
Inscribed, in ink, verso: H Z y CGR
May 1894, J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)