Golden Words! (No. 53)

Series TitleLos Caprichos

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

Date1799

MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 7 5/8 × 5 3/8 inches (19.37 × 13.65 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1087

Edition/State/Proof1st ed.

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

Terms

Exhibition History

Goya: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 16-March 1, 1953.

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

Goya: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, exh. cat. (Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1953).

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 88, p. 132, (repro.), as Que pico de oro! (What a golden beak!); 2: no. 88, p. 127-28, (repro.), as Que pico de oro! (What a golden beak!).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 557, pp. 130, 182, (repro.), as Que pico de Oro! (What a golden beak!).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 53, p. 64, (repro.), as What a golden beak!.

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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