Art Institute of Chicago

This is Not Less so, plate 67 from The Disasters of War

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Date

1815/20, published 1863

Medium

Etching with aquatint and drypoint in warm black on off-white wove paper with gilt edges

Culture

Spain

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

One of Goya’s most devastating print projects, The Disasters of War remained unpublished until decades after the artist’s death. The 82 prints in the series demonstrate his outrage at the havoc and torture wreaked on the common people in the wake of the Peninsular War, fought between Napoleon’s French Empire and Spain (1808-14). No one is safe, whether male, female, young, or old. Even the sanctity of religion becomes meaningless as statues of the Virgin Mary are carried off as plunder.

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