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What More Can be Done About It, No. 33
What More Can be Done About It, No. 33

What More Can be Done About It, No. 33

Portfolio TitleLos Desastres de la Guerra
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1863
MediumEtching with intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 5 × 6 1/8 inches (12.7 × 15.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number38-30/72
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Spanish Exhibition, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK, 1940.

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).

A collection of catalogs, vol. 1, Spanish Exhibition (Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Art Center, 1940).

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 153, p. 163, (repro.), as Qué hai que hacer mas? (What more can be done?); 2: no. 153, pp. 226-27, (repro.), as Qué hai que hacer mas? (What more can be done?).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1048, pp. 217, 271, (repro.), as Qué hai que hacer mas? (What more can one do?).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 33, p. 113, (repro.), as What more can be done?.

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

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