Salvador Dalí, (1904-1989)

Plate 25, Se quebro el cantero from Les Caprices de Goya; FRANCISCO GOYA (1746-1828) Plate 25, Si quebró el Cantaro from Los Caprichos (2 works)

Plate 25, Se quebro el cantero from Les Caprices de Goya; FRANCISCO GOYA (1746-1828) Plate 25, Si quebró el Cantaro from Los Caprichos (2 works) (Field 77-3-56; Delteil 39; Harris 37), 1799; 1977
Heliogravure of Goya's plate 25, reworked and altered with drypoint and stencil-coloring, on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil and numbered 164/200 (plus 20 epreuves d'artiste), published by Berggruen/Editions Graphiques Internationale, Paris, with full margins.
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FRANCISCO GOYA (1746-1828), Plate 25, Si quebró el Cantaro, from Los Caprichos, Fifth Edition, circa 1881 - 1886, etching on wove paper, published/printed by the Real Academia/Calcografía, Madrid, with margins. (2 works)
9 x 7 1/4in (22.7 x 17cm); 8 1/2 x 6in (21.5 x 15.2cm)
sheet 17 1/2 x 12 1/4in (44.4 x 31cm); 11 3/4 x 8 3/8in (29.7 x 20.5cm)

Goya's commentary on the brutal abuses of power during the Spanish Inquisition are further supported by Dali's addition of the cross of the Spanish Inquisition on the bottom of the mother's shoe, as she prepares to administer a harsh beating.