Nor for them. (Ni por esas.), number 11 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, aquatint and lavis on paper

First edition, made prior to all corrections

Plate: 6 5/16 × 8 5/16 in. (16.1 × 21.1 cm)

Sheet: 9 11/16 × 12 7/8 in. (24.6 × 32.7 cm)

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

PR.991.50.1.11

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: Ni por esas.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: 11; inscribed, in plate, lower left: 18; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 11 Watermark: HGO/Palmette

Label

This group of Goya’s prints attest to the mental toll of violence, which is inseparable from the physical horrors represented here. These prints focus the viewer’s attention on the plight of women during wartime. Women appear at the center of each image. Plate 11 features French soldiers menacing civilian women, casting a baby on the ground. In Plate 49, a group flees from a fire, which highlights the fainting body of a young woman held aloft. With hunched shoulders and solemn faces, the women speak to the profound misery resulting from French brutality, as well as a degree of resignation at the ongoing war. In addition to physical attacks, the Spanish faced famine and widespread starvation resulting from the occupation. In Plate 49, a woman, back turned to the viewer, brings food to the hungry. Men beg in Plate 58, while a lone woman in white stands, seemingly helpless. Goya’s attention to women in his print series records the experiences of civilians whose histories are otherwise lost.

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

FILM 47, From The Fall of the Wall to 9-11: Understanding the New World Disorder, Mark Williams, James Nachtwey, Spring 2013

ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013

SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Jose del Pino, Winter 2014

SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Txetxu Aguado, Winter 2014

ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015

ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015

ANTH 28/AAAS 88.08/WGSS 42.05, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Spring 2022

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

A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.

A Space for Dialogue 20, Broken Bodies: Icons of Sexual Violence, Risa Needleman, Class of 2004, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 25-July 18, 2004.

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

Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2 - March 10, 1996.

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20-August 20, 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.96, no. 112.

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 130; Harris 131

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