Plate 11 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): Not even in that way (Ni por esas)
ca. 1810 (published 1863)
Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/16 × 8 5/16 in. (16.1 × 21.1 cm) Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 5/8 in. (25 × 34.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, 1951
Accession Number
51.530.2(11)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Plate 11: *Not even in that Way (Ni por esas)* Francisco Goya's *The Disasters of War*** Created around 1810 amid the horrors of the Peninsular War (1808–1814), this etching captures Francisco Goya's raw response to Napoleon's invasion of Spain and the Spanish people's fierce resistance. Part of an 82-print series, *Los Desastres de la Guerra unflinchingly documents atrocities, famine, and human suffering. In this plate, titled "Not even in that," Goya depicts a defiant scene involving women, infants, and men—likely a mother shielding her child from soldiers' brutality—symbolizing unyield...
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 ...