Plate 6 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'It serves you right' (Bien te se está)
1810 (published 1863)
Medium
Etching, lavis, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 5 9/16 × 8 1/4 in. (14.1 × 21 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 3/8 in. (25.2 × 34 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(6)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Francisco de Goya y Luc, a pioneering Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, *Plate 6: "It serves you right"Bien te se está)* around 1810 as part of his seminal series *The Disasters of War*Los Desastres de la). This powerful etching captures the brutal realities of the Peninsular War (18081814), Spain's fight for independence against Napoleon's invading French forces. Goya, shifting from his earlier courtly portraits to raw Romantic realism, documented the unsparing horrors of conflict through 82 prints, many unpublished until 1863 due to their unflinching critique of war's...
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 ...