Neither More Nor Less (No. 41)

Series TitleLos Caprichos

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

Date1799

MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 7 1/16 x 5 1/8 inches (17.94 x 13.02 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (29.54 x 19.38 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1075

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.

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.

Goya/Chagoya, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 4, 2012-February 3, 2013, no cat., as Neither More nor Less (No. 41, Ni mas ni menos).

Gallery Label

Animals acting out human foolishness appear often in Goya’s Caprichos. The monkey-painter is a sly reference to the distinction Goya made between real artists like himself and those who merely aped what was placed before them, without thought. In Chagoya’s print, the monkey with brush in hand has Chagoya’s face. Is he mocking himself for copying Goya? On the easel is a different sort of portrait.

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: pp. 99, 102; 2: no. 76, p. 113, (repro.), as Ni mas ni menos. (Neither more nor less.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 532, pp. 128, 180-81, (repro.), as Ni mas ni menos. (Neither more nor less).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 41, p. 57, (repro.), as Neither more nor less.

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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