They Do Not Agree, plate 17 from The Disasters of War
1810/12, published 1863
Medium
Etching, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 12.8 × 19.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 21.6 cm (5 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.5 cm (9 1/2 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124860
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...