Not (in this case) either (Tampoco), plate number 36, from the series The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra)
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828
about 1810, published 1863
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin and burnisher on wove paper
Plate: 6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in. (15.5 × 20.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (24.7 × 34.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher H. McDowell
PR.969.70
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Label
In this group of prints, Goya charts not only the destruction of war, but also its effect on the conquered population. Before mangled bodies, witnesses must make sense of the horror inflicted on their country. In depicting such terrible imagery in graphic detail, the artist forces viewers of the prints to share in looking upon monumental inhumanity. While the Spanish villagers cover their faces in anguish or disgust, the reaction of the French soldiers, in contrast, often remain impassive. In Plate 36, one of Goya’s best known images from Disasters of War, a French soldier is almost amused as he looks at the hanging body of a Spanish man who has been stripped of much of his clothing. The opposing reactions of the French soldiers and Spanish civilians calls attention to the plight of the survivors.
From the 2023 exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming
Course History
PHIL 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, Jacob McNulty, Fall 2021
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke 1, Summer 2023
Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Josh Dannin, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
19th-Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Napoleonic Era, Strauss and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979.
Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20-August 20, 2023.
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