You Will Not Escape (No. 72)

Series TitleLos Caprichos

Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Date1799

MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 7 1/8 × 5 3/8 inches (18.1 × 13.65 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1106

Edition/State/Proof1st ed.

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Exhibition History

Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact, A loan exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight, 1903-1953, Dayton Art Institute, OH, December 17, 1953-February 21, 1954; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, OH, March 19-April 27, 1954.

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 28, 2008-May 3, 2009, no cat., as You Will Not Escape (No. 72).

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 25-December 14, 2014, no cat., as You Will Not Escape (No. 72).

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact, A loan exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight, 1903-1953, exh. cat. (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1953).

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: ; 2: no. 107, p. 150, (repro.), as No te escaparas [sic]. (You will not escape.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 596, p. 184, (repro.), as No te escaparás. (You won’t escape).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 72, p. 77, (repro.), as You will not escape.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 134, 314, as Caprices (Los Caprichos).

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