Plate 16 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'They make use of them' (Se aprovechan)
ca. 1810 (published in 1863)
Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, burnisher
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 1/2 in. (25.1 × 34.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.25(16)
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About this artwork
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)'s "Plate 16 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'They make use of them' (Se aprovechan)" (ca. 1810 (published in 1863)) The work, executed in etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, burnisher, measures plate: 6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in. and Prints served crucial roles in disseminating artistic ideas and images across geographic and social boundaries. This work provides valuable insights into Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)'s artistic practice and t...
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 ...