What is the Use of a Cup?, plate 59 from The Disasters of War
1812/15, published 1863
Medium
Etching, burnished aquatint and lavis on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 12.7 × 18 cm (5 × 7 1/8 in.); Plate: 15 × 20.5 cm (5 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.9 cm (9 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124912
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...