Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) after - Caprichos Blatt #40 De què mal morirà ?

Francisco José De Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Copperplate print of the famous Caprichos series, leaf #40.
Copper deep printing
Sheet size: 300 mm x 198 mm
Image size: 182 mm x 130 mm
The pressure of the Munich Art Institution J.B. Obernetter was published in 1922 by the Hugo Schmidt publishing house in Munich as an edition in copper engraving of outstanding quality, in an edition of 500 copies. (no heliograph)
Sheet #40 comes from the numbered copy #35. Proof of the origin of the etching (see photos) will be sent as a copy.
Page 40: The engraving depicts a donkey wearing a ring of Spanish doctors on its right hoof. The donkey behaves like a doctor, taking the pulse of a suffering patient, which can be interpreted as a critique of all the doctors who, in 1793, tried to treat Goya for an illness caused by the ingestion of lead residues.