And the House is on Fire (No. 18)

Series TitleLos Caprichos

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

Date1799

MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 7 × 4 11/16 inches (17.78 × 11.91 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1052

Edition/State/Proof1st ed.

On View

Not on view

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Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

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

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 53, p. 88, (repro.), as Ysele quema la casa. (And his house is on fire.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 487, p. 178, (repro.), as Ysele quema la Casa. (And his house is on fire.).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 18, p. 44, (repro.), as And his house is on fire.

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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