Sujet

Por qué?; Los Desastres de la Guerra, Madrid 1863. Creator: Francisco Goya.

Légende

Por qué?, (Why?), Plate 32, "Los Desastres de la Guerra", c1810, (published 1863). Execution without any legal process: soldiers strangling a man with a rope. Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates (between 1810 and 1815), art historians see them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent cruel war that ended in Spanish victory in the Peninsular War of 1808-1814, and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. From "Los Desastres de la Guerra: colección de ochenta láminas inventadas y grabadas al agua fuerte por Don Francisco de Goya", (The Disasters of War: collection of eighty plates made and etched by Don Francisco de Goya), [Madrid, 1863].

Date

1810

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A46_189

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52.7Mo (8.8Mo) / 42.0cm x 31.4cm / 4960 x 3712 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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