Shaving Him (No. 35)
Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1796
MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (19.69 × 13.34 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1069
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA young man being shaved by a girl. In the background stands a duenna and a woman with a dish.Exhibition History[No known exhibitions at this time]
With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 1933;
Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 70, p. 107, (repro.), as Le descañona. (She fleeces him.).
Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 520, pp. 163, 180, (repro.), as Le descañona. (She fleeces him).
Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 35, p. 53, (repro.), as She fleeces him.
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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