Plate 23 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The Same Elsewhere' (Lo mismo en otras partes)
1810 (published 1863)
Medium
Etching, drypoint, lavis, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 24 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (25.2 × 34.4 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(23)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Plate 23, *'The Same Elsewhere'Lo mismo en otras partes, from Francisco de Goya's seminal series *The Disasters of War*Los Desastres de la Guerra captures the unrelenting horrors of the Peninsular War (18081814). Created around 1810 amid Spain's brutal resistance to Napoleon's invasion, this etching poignantly conveys that war's atrocities were not isolated but pervasive—"the same elsewhere." Goya, a master of Romanticism transitioning from court painter to unflinching social critic, documented these events with raw, unsparing realism, influencing generations of artists to confront human suffe...
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 ...