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What Madness, No. 68

Portfolio TitleLos Desastres de la Guerra
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1863
MediumEtching with intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (13.34 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number38-30/54
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, MO, April 22-May 21, 1967, no cat.

Provenance

Dr. Julius Hofmann (1840-1913), Vienna, by 1913 [1];

In his posthumous sale, Kostbare Kupferstiche von alten Meistern des XV. - XVII. Jahrhunderts, Dubletten des Britischen Museums in London und der Kupferstichsammlung Albertina in Wien: ein Prachtexemplar der frühen niederländischen Ausgabe von 1465 der Biblia Pauperum; eine berühmte Sammlung von französischen Farbstichen des XVIII. Jahrhunderts; die bedeutende Goya-Sammlung von Dr. Julius Hofmann, Wien, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 14-15, 1924;

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, December 19, 1938;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1938.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 1264

Published References

Kostbare Kupferstiche von alten Meistern des XV. - XVII. Jahrhunderts, Dubletten des Britischen Museums in London und der Kupferstichsammlung Albertina in Wien: ein Prachtexemplar der frühen niederländischen Ausgabe von 1465 der Biblia Pauperum; eine berühmte Sammlung von französischen Farbstichen des XVIII. Jahrhunderts; die bedeutende Goya-Sammlung von Dr. Julius Hofmann, Wien (Leipzig: C.G. Boerner, November 14-15, 1924).


Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: pp. 141, 146-47, 149; 2: no. 188, p. 277, (repro.), as Que locura! (What madness!).


Nigel Glendinning, “A solution to the enigma of Goya's 'emphatic caprices' Nos. 65-80 of 'The Disasters of War',” Apollo 107 (1978): 186-91.


Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1110, p. 274, (repro.), as Que locura! (What madness!).


Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 68, p. 132, (repro.), as What madness!.


George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 143-45n10, 314, (repro.), as Los Desastres de la Guerra.



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