Francisco de Goya - part 7

Self-Portrait
oil on canvas 45.8 x 35.6 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish artist widely considered one of the most important painters of the Romantic period. The artist took on a wide array of subject matter, including self-portraiture, fantasy scenes, landscapes, and still lifes. “Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends,” he once explained. Born Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes in the town of Fuendetodos, Spain on March 30, 1746, he began studying art under the painter Jose Luzán at the age of 14. During the 1770s, Goya produced works such as The Parasol (1777), which meld the unlikely pairing of cheery Rococo aesthetics with the moody works of Diego Velázquez. 

The artist became the court painter of Charles III of Spain in 1786, and continued painting for the Spanish court until Napoleons invasion of Spain in 1808. During the Napoleonic wars, Goya’s palette significantly darkened as he produced some of his most famous works. Among these paintings are the The Second of May 1808 (1814) and The Third of May 1808 (1814), which show the terrors of war. Three years before he left his native country, Goya produced 14 paintings directly onto the plaster walls of his farmhouse. These works, collectively known as The Black Paintings (1821), depicted terrifying supernatural themes and heinous violence. 

Living in exile in Bordeaux, France, the artist died on April 16, 1828. His works went on to have a profound influence on both Édouard Manet and Pablo Picasso. Today, Goya’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Prado Museum in Madrid, and the Louvre Museum in Paris, among others.

This is part 7 of a 10-part series on the works of Francisco de Goya.

1810-12 The Disasters of War:

Francisco de Goya responded to the Peninsular War (1808–11) by creating over 80 etchings critiquing the cruelty and senseless violence that accompanies war. In this print, he depicted a historical event: Augustina of Aragon heroically defending Saragossa, taking over the cannon of her fallen comrades. Because she had already become a woman of legendary status when this print was made, Goya did not show Augustina’s face. Due to the oppressive policies of King Ferdinand VII, these prints were not published until 1863.

(Note: I couldn't get Plates 20 & 21 to upload in the right order)

Plate 1. Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen
etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper
17.5 x 22 cm (plate)

Plate 2. Rightly or wrongly
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Plate 3. The Same
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Plate 4. The Women Give Courage
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Plate 5. And they are like wild beasts
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15.5 x 20.8 cm (plate)

Plate 6. It Serves You Right
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Plate 7. What Courage!
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Plate 8. It Always Happens
etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper 17.5 x 21.7 cm (plate)

Plate 9. They Don’t Like it
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15.3 x 20.6 cm (plate)

Plate 10. Neither do these
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Plate 11. Nor do these
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16 x 21 cm (plate)

Plate 12. This is What You Were Born For
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15.9 x 23.5 cm (plate)

Plate 13. Bitter to be Present
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Plate 14. It’s a hard step!
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Plate 15. And there’s no help for it
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14 x 16.9 cm (plate)

Plate 16. They Make Use of Them
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Plate 17. They Do Not Agree
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14.5 x 21.6 cm (plate)

Plate 18. Bury them and keep quiet
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16 x 23.5 cm (plate)

Plate 19. There isn’t Time Now
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Plate 21. It will be the same
etching and burnished lavis 14.5 x 22 cm (plate)

Plate 20. Get them well, and on to the next
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16 x 23.5 cm (plate)

Plate 22. Even Worse
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Plate 23. The Same Elsewhere
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16 x 23.9 cm (plate)

Plate 24. They Can Still be of Use
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Plate 25. These too
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16 x 23.5 cm (plate)

Plate 26. One Can’t Look
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Plate 27. Charity
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Plate 28. Rabble
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Plate 29. He deserved it
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17.5 x 21.5 cm (plate)

Plate 30. Ravages of war
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14 x 17 cm (plate)

Plate 31. That’s tough!
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15.3 x 20.6 cm (plate)

Plate 32. Why?
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Plate 33. What More Can Be Done?
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Plate 34. On account of a knife
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15.5 x 20.7 cm (plate) 

Plate 35. One Can't Tell Why
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Plate 36. Not in this case
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Plate 37. This is Worse
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15.5 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 38. Barbarians!
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Plate 39. A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!
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15.5 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 40. He gets something out of it
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Plate 41. They Escape through the Flames
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Plate 42. Everything is topsy-turvy
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 17.5 x 22 cm (plate)

Plate 43. This too
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 15.5 x 20.8 cm (plate)

Plate 44. I Saw it
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 15.7 x 23.3 cm (plate)

Plate 45. And this too
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Plate 46. This is Bad
 etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, drypoint, and burin on ivory wove paper 15.2 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 47. This is How it Happened
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Plate 48. Cruel tale of woe!
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15.3 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 49. A Woman’s Charity
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15.3 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 50. Unhappy Mother!
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15.4 x 20.6 cm (plate)

Plate 51. Thanks to the Millet
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 15.3 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 52. They Do Not Arrive in Time
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15.5 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 53. There Was Nothing to be Done and He Died
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15.2 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 54. Appeals are in vain
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15.5 x 20.5 cm (plate)

Plate 55. The Worst is to Beg
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Note: The Disasters of War continues in Part 8.