Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010
The Year
Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2009–June 2010
Nohubo remedio (Nothing Could Be Done About It), Plate 24 from "Los Caprichos"
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Platemark: 21.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.)
Sheet: 32.2 x 22.2 cm (12 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Etching and burnished aquatint, first edition
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2009.3994
Provenance/Ownership History: Private collection, France; purchased by Hill-Stone, Inc., New York (June 2009); from whom purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 16, 2009)
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard