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Up and Down (No.56)

Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1799
MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/8 x 5 inches (18.73 x 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1090
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 28, 2008-May 3, 2009, no cat., as Up and Down (No.56).

Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, May 20-August 14, 2011, no cat.

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 25-December 14, 2014, no cat., as Up and Down (No.56).

Gallery Label
Fortune, symbolized by the goat-footed man, plays with people, raising them up high or tossing them away. The message is that fortune is fickle.
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

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 91, p. 131, (repro.), as Subir y bajar. (To rise and to fall.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 563, p. 182, (repro.), as Subir y bajar. (Ups and downs).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 56, p. 66, (repro.), as To rise and to fall.

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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Hurry Up, They Are Waking (No. 78)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1112
They Spruce Themselves Up (No. 51, Se repulen)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1085
Hush (No. 28)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1062
Correction (No. 46)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1080
There is Much to Drink (No. 45)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1079
Mated (No. 57)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1091
Wait Until You Have Been Annointed (No. 67)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1101
The Child of the Rollona (No. 4)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1038
To Food, My Children (No. 11)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1045
Bravissimo (No. 38)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1072
What Gravity (No. 63)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1097
Better to Do Nothing
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1107