What a Heroic Deed!, No. 39

Portfolio TitleLos Desastres de la Guerra

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

Date1863

MediumEtching with intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 5 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (13.97 × 18.73 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number38-30/32

Edition/State/Proof1st ed.

On View

Not on view

Collections

Prints

Terms

Exhibition History

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

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

War and Suffering, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 17, 2007-May 18, 2008, 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 159, pp. 138, 165, (repro.), as Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (An heroic feat! With dead men!); 2: no. 159, p. 237, (repro.), as Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (An heroic feat! With dead men!).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 1055, pp. 217, 257, 271, (repro.), as Grande hazaña! Con muertos!.

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 39, p. 116, (repro.), as A heroic feat! With dead men!.

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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