Bitter to be Present, plate 13 from The Disasters of War
1810/11, published 1863
Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 13 × 16 cm (5 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Plate: 14.1 × 17 cm (5 9/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124856
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...