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Bravissimo (No. 38)

Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1799
MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 7 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (18.42 x 13.02 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (29.21 x 19.05 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1072
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

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.

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 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: pp. 40, 102; 2: no. 73, p. 110, (repro.), as Brabisimo! (Bravo!).


Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 524, pp. 128, 180, (repro.), as Brabisimo! (Bravissimo!).


Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 38, p. 55, (repro.), as Bravo!.


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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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
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
Hurry Up, They Are Waking (No. 78)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1112
Fine Advice (No. 15)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1049
Pretty Teacher! (No. 68, Linda maestra!)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
33-1102