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Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

1811–12 (published 1863)

Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Medium

Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint

Dimensions

Plate: 6 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (15.5 × 20.5 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(50)

Tags

ChildrenMenWomen

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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