Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-1828
A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, plate 39 from The Disasters of War
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish, 1746-18281812/15, published 1863
A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, plate 39 from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828 →etchingprint
Date
1812/15, published 1863
Medium
Etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 13.8 × 18.7 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 20.5 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of J. C. Cebrian
This harrowing image mocks any notion of the possibility of heroic or admirable consequences of war. Yet much later, Vargi Aivazian of the TASS Window studio turned horror into humor by using this very image as inspiration for his sardonic TASS 634, Holiday Tree Ornaments.
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