Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War
1814/20, published 1863
Medium
Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Dimensions
Image: 14.7 × 19 cm (5 13/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 17.5 × 22 cm (6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 24 × 33.7 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79014
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The lone figure kneeling in a garden evokes Christ in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion. Ill-defined chaos swirls in the dark background, as the man’s outstretched arms signal his apprehension of and abandonment to the unknown future.
About the Artist
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in the small Aragonese village of Fuendetodos, Spain, to José Benito de Goya, a master gilder, and Gracia de Lucientes. The fourth of six children in a modest lower-middle-class family, Goya received a basic education before beginning his artistic training at age 14 under the local painter José Luzán y Martínez in Zaragoza, where he sp...