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The Beds of Death, No. 62

Portfolio TitleLos Desastres de la Guerra
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1863
MediumEtching with intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 5 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (14.61 x 16.19 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number38-30/50
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: p. 147, 149; 2: no. 183, p. 269, (repro.), as Muertos recogidos. (Harvest of the dead.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1100, p. 273, (repro.), as Muertos recogidos. (Dead bodies heaped together).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 62, p. 128, (repro.), as The beds of death.

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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