What More Can Be Done?, plate 33 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
1812/15, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Classification
- 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.)
- 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
The very limits of cruelty are on display in this scene, which depicts an act of sheer brutality and contempt for humanity.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
