Plate 12 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'This is what you were born for' (Para eso habeis nacido)
Medium
Etching, drypoint, burin (working proof)
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.1 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 11/16 in. (22.2 × 32.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.62.14
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 ...