GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
(b. 1746, Fuendetodos, d. 1828, Bordeaux)

What courage!

1810-15
Etching and aquatint, 155 x 208 mm
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This is Plate 7 from the series The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra).

Goya reacted to the struggle against the French with The Disasters of War, his second great cycle of etchings after Los Caprichos. It extends to over 80 plates, but includes only few acts of heroism, such as that of the young woman who fires the cannon after all the men are dead.




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