One can't look

Artist Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Titles

Plate 26 fromThe Disasters of War
No se puede mirar

Dateca. 1810-1820 (published 1863)

Mediumetching, burnished lavis, drypoint, and burin

DimensionsPlatemark: 5 9/16 × 8 3/16 in. (14.2 × 20.8 cm) Overall: 9 11/16 x 13 1/4 in. (24.6 x 33.7 cm) Framed: 15 1/4 × 17 3/4 × 3/4 in. (38.7 × 45.1 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert and Karen Hoehn

CultureSpanish

Inscribed"No se puede mirar." in plate below image; number 26 (6 is reversed) on u.l. printed in plate outside image; number 27 printed in plate outside image l.l.; number 26 handwritten l.r. below image inside plate

PortfolioLos desastres de la guerra, first edition, published March 1863

Catalogue raisonnéHarris 146.III.1 (first edition, with letters); Blas & Matilla 2000, cat.no.26.

Object numberPC1999.01.26

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionMan in fouregroun kneeling and pleading with hands clasped; figures in background, including veiled women and children, a woman with head thrown back in white on her knees, another figure collapsed on the ground; knife points of bayonets enter into frame on far right

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