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Take Care (No. 66)

Series TitleLos Caprichos
Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)
Date1799
MediumEtching with media
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/8 × 4 7/8 inches (18.73 × 12.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1100
Edition/State/Proof1st ed.
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact, A loan exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, December 17, 1953-February 21, 1954; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, OH, March 19-April 27, 1954.

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 28, 2008-May 3, 2009, no cat., as Take Care (No. 66).

Caricature, Fashion and Fantasy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 25-December 14, 2014, no cat., as Take Care (No. 66).

Gallery Label
A witch holding a crutch is riding on the crippled and emaciated devil; so the poor devil whom everybody scorns is sometimes very useful.
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

Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact, A loan exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight, 1903-1953, exh. cat. (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1953).

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs, vol. 2 (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), no. 101, p. 143, (repro.), as Allá vá eso. (There it goes.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 583, pp. 126, 128, 183, (repro.), as Allá vá eso. (There it goes).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 66, p. 72, (repro.), as There it goes.

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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