The Same, plate three from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
1810/15, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.6 × 19.9 cm (5 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Plate: 16 × 22 cm (6 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.8 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Spain
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of J. C. Cebrian
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Here the ax pauses before descending upon the begging French soldier. Only the clothing of the adversaries distinguishes between friends and foes. Violence has overtaken both the French and Spanish alike.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
