# A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, plate 39 from The Disasters of War

- By: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)
- Date: 1812/15, published 1863
- Medium: Etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: Gift of J. C. Cebrian
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/124886)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/45d173cb-c518-4052-61b8-03902e521631/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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