Ravages van de oorlog
Medium
etching
Dimensions
170; 140
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso midden, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Ravages van de Oorlog (Ravages of War)** Francisco de Goya, etching, 1863 (140 × 170 mm) Francisco de Goya, towering figure of Spanish Romanticism, captured the brutal realities of conflict in his seminal series *The Disasters of War*Los Desastres de la Guerra), created between 1810 and 1820. This, titled *Ravages van de Oorlog* in Dutch, likely draws from that poignant collection, which Goya etched in response to the Peninsular War's devastation during Napoleon's invasion of Spain. Printed posthumously in 1863—over three decades after Goya's death in 1828—it reflects his unflinching gaze...