Barbarians!

Artist Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Titles

Plate 38 from The Disasters of War
Bárbaros!

Dateca. 1810 (published 1863)

Mediumetching, burnished aquatint, burin, and burnisher

DimensionsPlatemark: 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (15 × 20.6 cm) Overall: 9 13/16 x 13 5/16 in. (24.9 x 33.8 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"Bárbaros!" printed in plate below image; number 38 printed in plate outside image (8 slightly inside image) u.l.; number 38 handwritten below image in plate l.r.

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

Catalogue raisonnéHarris 158.III.1 (first edition, with letters); Blas & Matilla 2000, cat.no.38.

Object numberPC1999.01.38

ClassificationsPrint Collection

Descriptionfigure tied to trunk of tree at left, tied facing the tree, his back to us; two soldiers one closer to us in lighter clothing, the one behind in shadow, aim guns at close range at figure bound to tree; other soldiers stand in center background, visible from torso, holding bayonets

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