Cleveland Museum of Art
The Horrors of War: Charity
Francisco de GoyaLinkedCulture matchlcp-dc200867e871
- Date
- 1810
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104419
From LinkedCulture
Goya called this print "Charity," but there is nothing gentle here. Naked corpses are dragged and heaved into a mass grave while armed soldiers push the dead forward under a blank, empty sky. Goya etched this scene in secret in 1810, recording Peninsular War atrocities he never dared publish, and the plates stayed hidden for over thirty years after his death. That suppression is part of what makes this work so powerful.
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A group of figures engaged in a struggle on a rocky terrain.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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