82 Works, The Art of War, Francisco Goya’s “The Disasters of War Series”, with Footnotes

Francisco Goya (1746–1828)
Los desastres de la guerra, plate No. 1, (1st edition, Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1863)

Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, burnisher
Museo del Prado

Between 1808 and 1814 the Spanish, the Portuguese and English fought Napoleon’s France in the Peninsular War. In the first part of Goya’s series we witness the scenes of war…

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