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One Cannot Tell Why, No. 35

Portfolio TitleLos Desastres de la Guerra
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1863
MediumEtching with intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number38-30/28
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. 140, 149; 2: no. 155, pp. 230-31, (repro.), as No se puede saber por qué. (One can’t tell why.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1050, pp. 217, 220, 271, (repro.), as No se puede saber por qué. (One can’t tell why).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 35, p. 114, (repro.), as One can’t tell why.

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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