They Make Use of Them, plate 16 from The Disasters of War
1810/12, published 1863
Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.1 × 19.2 cm (5 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Plate: 15.9 × 23 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 19.3 × 25 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45833
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...