Plate 36 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Not [in this case] either' (Tampoco)
![Plate 36 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Not [in this case] either' (Tampoco) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.artheonmuseum.org%2Fmet%2Fdp%2Fthumb%2Fplate-36-from-the-disasters-of-war-los-desastres-334470.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 6 in. × 8 1/16 in. (15.3 × 20.4 cm) Sheet: 8 in. × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Derald H. and Janet Ruttenberg, Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin, Arthur Ross Foundation, and Peter H. B. Freylinghuysen Gifts, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1987
Accession Number
1987.1014
Tags
Art Historical Context
Plate 36, titled *Tampoco* ("Not either"), from Francisco de Goya y Luc's seminal series *The Disasters of War* (1810-1820), confronts viewers with the raw brutality of conflict. Created amid the Peninsular War (18081814), when Napoleon's forces invaded Spain, Goya 82 etchings document the atrocities committed by French troops and Spanish partisans alike. This plate, like others, captures death's grim reality—likely depicting a mutilated corpse amid chaos—serving as a powerful indictment of war's inhumanity. Goya, a master of Romanticism transitioning from court painter to unflinching social c...
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 ...