A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, plate 39 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
1812/15, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.8 × 18.7 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 20.5 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 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
This harrowing image mocks any notion of the possibility of heroic or admirable consequences of war. Yet much later, Vargi Aivazian of the TASS Window studio turned horror into humor by using this very image as inspiration for his sardonic TASS 634, Holiday Tree Ornaments.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
