There is no one to help them. (No hay quien los socorra.), number 60 of 80; from the series The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra)

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: No hay quien los socorra.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: 60; lower left: 31; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 60 Watermark: HGO/Palmette

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

ANTH 50, COCO 2, HIV/AIDS Through a Biosocial Lens: 30 Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2013

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

COCO 2.3, ANTH 50.6, HIV/AIDS Through a Bio-social Lens: Thirty Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2015

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 Space for Dialogue 5, Amanda Potter, Class of 2002, Education Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-May 12, 2002.

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

Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.

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.100, no. 161.

Hilliard T. Goldfarb and Reva Wolf, Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1990, p. 72, ill. XX.

Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.

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 179; Harris 180

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