About this artwork
The prints in Goya’s Disasters of War, one of the artist’s bleakest series, protest the treatment of civilians during the long Spanish conflict with France, particularly demonstrating the toll on women. The unceremonious manhandling of a female casualty of war makes a troubling focal point for this particularly dark image. The anonymous woman’s dangling white limbs and displaced skirts suggest she may have suffered rape in addition to the other acts of violence that caused her death.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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Title
- Cartloads to the cemetery, plate 64 from The Disasters of War
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1812–1815
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Medium
- Etching, aquatint and drypoint in warm black on off-white wove paper with gilt edges
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Dimensions
- Image: 12.9 × 18.1 cm (5 1/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 20.5 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.9 cm (9 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of J. C. Cebrian
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Reference Number
- 1920.1369
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/124917/manifest.json