Caridad de una muger - Original Goya Etching - Disasters of War No. 49
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, no. 49 of The Disasters of War, "Caridad de una muger" (A woman's charity). A woman tends the bodies lying beside a wall, watched by two cloaked men. Third printing. Framed with an antique gilt frame.
Original etching by Francisco de Goya, no. 49 of The Disasters of War, "Caridad de una muger" (A woman's charity). A woman tends the bodies lying beside a wall, watched by two cloaked men. Third printing. Framed with an antique gilt frame.
The subject belongs to the group devoted to the famine that ravaged Madrid in 1811-1812, the bleakest block of the series. The Disasters, etched between 1810 and 1815, were not published until 1863, when the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando issued the eighty subjects.
Medium: Etching.
Artist / after: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).
Source: The Disasters of War series, no. 49; third printing.
Condition: Good; the paper shows an even amber tone. Framed with an antique frame and glass.
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Original etching by Francisco de Goya, no. 49 of The Disasters of War, "Caridad de una muger" (A woman's charity). A woman tends the bodies lying beside a wall, watched by two cloaked men. Third printing. Framed with an antique gilt frame.