An heroic feat! With dead men!

Artist Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Titles

Grande hazaña! Con muertos!
Plate 39 from The Disasters of War

Dateca. 1810 (published 1863)

Mediumetching, lavis, and drypoint

DimensionsPlatemark: 6 × 8 1/16 in. (15.2 × 20.5 cm) Overall: 9 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (23.7 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"Grande hazaña! Con muertos!" printed in plate below image; number 39 printed in plate outside image u.l.; small, faint number (31?0 printed in plate below image l.l.; number 39 handwritten in graphite l.r.

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

Catalogue raisonnéHarris 159.III.1.b (first edition, with letters, after correction); Blas & Matilla 2000, cat.no.39.

Object numberPC1999.01.39

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionNaked dead male figure tied to a tree, hands bound behind tree, feet bound together, genitals cut off; second dead male figure on left behind first legs tied to tree, head and torso laying on ground, arms outstretched; third figure on right, arms decapitated, tied together at wrists, and tied at fingers to tree, headless torso, also with decapitated genitals bound upside-down to tree, decapitated head stuck to broken off tree branch at top right

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