Plate 69 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Nothing. The event will tell' (Nada. Ello dirá)
1814–15 (published 1863)
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint, burin
Dimensions
Plate: 6 in. × 7 13/16 in. (15.3 × 19.9 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 9/16 in. (25.2 × 34.5 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(69)
Tags
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 ...