The consequences. (Las resultas.), number 72 of 80; from the series The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra)

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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1810-1820

Etching on paper

First edition, made prior to all corrections

Plate: 6 7/8 × 8 9/16 in. (17.4 × 21.8 cm)

Sheet: 9 11/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24.6 × 32.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935

PR.991.50.1.72

Publisher

Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

Geography

Place Made: Spain, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Las resultas.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: 72; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 72 Watermark: HGO/Palmette

Label

The last few plates in Goya’s series consider the aftermath of fighting. More allegorical than the early parts of the series, these images bring in ghoulish monsters that evoke the unspeakable horrors of war. In Plate 72, a bird-like creature with bat wings feasts on the corpse of a dead man; the fluttering of similar creatures behind suggests an ominous flock ready to revel in the results of war. Plate 79 points to a similarly bleak future. On the ground, a partially clothed woman appears to be dead, surrounded by a group of onlookers. Rays of light emit from her crumpled form. While one woman covers her face, the remaining group seems threatening. Goya’s caption, written in the past tense, proclaims: Truth has died. Do the beams of light around the woman’s body, representing Truth itself, suggest that hope is still possible?

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

Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2023

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

Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 8-December 9, 1990.

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 23-December 9, 2023.

Publication History

Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.101, no. 173.

Hilliard T. Goldfarb and Reva Wolf, Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1990.

Provenance

Date unknown, in the collection of Felix Somary (1881-1956), Vienna and Zurich; sold Sotheby's, New York, May 3, 1978, lot 2; purchased by Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama; 1991 given to Dartmouth College by Adolph Weil, Jr., Class of 1935.

Catalogue Raisonne

Delteil 191; Harris 192

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