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What a Tailor is Able To Do! (No. 52)
What a Tailor is Able To Do! (No. 52)

What a Tailor is Able To Do! (No. 52)

Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1799
MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches (19.69 x 12.38 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (29.21 x 19.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1086
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
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.

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: ; 2: no. 87, pp. 125-26, (repro.), as Lo que puede un sastre! (What a tailor can do!).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 555, p. 182, (repro.), as Lo que puede un Sastre! (What a tailor can do!).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 52, p. 63, (repro.), as What a tailor can do!.

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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