Plate 44 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): I saw it (Yo lo vi)

Plate 44 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): I saw it (Yo lo vi) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Medium

Etching, drypoint, burin

Dimensions

Plate: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (15.8 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 9/16 in. (25.1 × 34.5 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(44)

Tags

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About the Artist

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 17461828

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 ...

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