One Can't Look, plate 26 from The Disasters of War

One Can't Look, plate 26 from The Disasters of War by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Medium

Etching, burnished lavis, drypoint and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges

Dimensions

Image: 12.2 × 18.6 cm (4 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 14.3 × 20.7 cm (5 11/16 × 8 3/16 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

124873

About the Artist

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 17461828

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...

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