Plate 4

Las mugeres dan valor (The Women Give Courage), 1810–1820 (published 1863)

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Two women are represented fighting for their lives in this scene from Goya’s "Disasters of War." One stabs a fallen soldier, the other is ferociously wrestled to the ground. Goya boldly employed a coarsely granulated aquatint on this plate, which sets the violent scene in a dystopian moonscape, a world obscured by an explosive pattern of tone and light.

Details
Title
Las mugeres dan valor (The Women Give Courage)
Artist Life
1746–1828
Role
Artist
Accession Number
P.71.20
Catalogue Raisonne
Harris-124.III.1
Curator Approved

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Plate 4