Art Institute of Chicago
Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Date
- 1814/20, published 1863
- Medium
- Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The lone figure kneeling in a garden evokes Christ in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion. Ill-defined chaos swirls in the dark background, as the man’s outstretched arms signal his apprehension of and abandonment to the unknown future.
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