This is Not Less so, plate 67 from The Disasters of War
1815/20, published 1863
Medium
Etching with aquatint and drypoint in warm black on off-white wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 14.4 × 18.9 cm (5 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 17 × 21.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.8 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124920
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
One of Goya’s most devastating print projects, The Disasters of War remained unpublished until decades after the artist’s death. The 82 prints in the series demonstrate his outrage at the havoc and torture wreaked on the common people in the wake of the Peninsular War, fought between Napoleon’s French Empire and Spain (1808-14). No one is safe, whether male, female, young, or old. Even the sanctity of religion becomes meaningless as statues of the Virgin Mary are carried off as plunder.
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...