What More Can Be Done?, plate 33 from The Disasters of War
1812/15, published 1863
Medium
Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 14 × 18.6 cm (5 9/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 20.7 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124880
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The very limits of cruelty are on display in this scene, which depicts an act of sheer brutality and contempt for humanity.
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...