Los Caprichos

1799

Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 80 etching and aquatints with drypoint, engraving, and/or burnishing on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    book (volume closed): 31.5 × 20.5 × 2.5 cm (12 3/8 × 8 1/16 × 1 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4711

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 36, State -115 III (1st ed.)

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Si quebro el cantaro (Yes He Broke the Pot)

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 51.

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, no. 83.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.

1992

  • Tomlinson, Janis A. Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992 (illustrated plates 14, 29, 42, 43, 65, 77 on pp. 8, 22, 23, 7, 9, 23 respectively).

1994

  • Stafford, Barbara Maria. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1994, (1943.3.4711.f, .jj, .zzz only) pl. 6, 36, 78.

1997

  • Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 105, fig. 28.

2000

  • Baird, Forrest E., ed. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Upper Saddle River, 2000: np.

2001

  • Goya: Images of Women. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 83.

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters on red leather label on spine of brown leather binding: CAPRICH / DE / GOYA; on verso of front endpaper in graphite in later hand at upper left: AS / B-9354 and at upper center: HH1019 / Very rare all 1st States. / complete set 80 plates / Les Caprices

Markings

National Gallery of Art stampe on verso of front endpaper

Watermarks

none

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