'If he Is guilty, let him die quickly' (Si es deliquente qe. muera presto)
ca. 1815 (printed around 1859)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (11.6 × 9.5 cm) Sheet: 7 11/16 × 5 1/8 in. (19.6 × 13 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.376
Tags
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...