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Francisco Goya was Spanish artist whose paintings and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important painters who followed. His famous works include the series of etchings titled The Disasters of War (1810–14) and the painting The Third of May 1808 (1814).
The Etchings of Francisco Goya. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was one of history's most masterful printmakers and social satirists. The Benton Museum of Art is proud to own first editions sets of all four of his etching series, a total of 211 prints.
Although Goya’s graphic work is grounded in the dramatic Baroque tradition of contrasting lights and darks, recalling Tiepolo’s war scenes and Rembrandt’s etchings, The Disasters of War etchings employ the tradition within a unique compositional framework.
Goya is one of the greatest printmakers of all time, and is famous for his achievements in etching and aquatint. He created four major print portfolios during his career: the Caprichos, Proverbios, Tauromaquia, and The Disasters of War.
Goya’s etchings. The museum displays all the major series that Goya etched between 1778 and 1825: Copies after Velázquez (1778), Caprichos (1799), The Disasters of War (1810-1815), Tauromaquia (1816), Disparates (1816-1820) and The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824-1825).
Francisco Goya. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (/ ˈɡɔɪə /; Spanish: [f ɾ a n ˈ θ i s k o x o ˈ s e ð e ˈ ɣ o ʝ a i l u ˈ θ j e n t e s]; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [1]
This is the best known image from Goya's series of 80 aquatint etchings published in 1799 known as 'Los Caprichos' that are generally understood as the artist's criticism of the society in which he lived. Goya worked on the series from around 1796-98 and many drawings for the prints survive.
The violence that Goya witnessed during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814) inspired him to execute the Disasters of War, a series of eighty-two etchings done between 1810 and 1820, eighty of which were first published in 1863.
Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux) Date: 1799. Medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918. Accession Number: 18.64(1-80)
Mar 30, 1746 - Apr 16, 1828. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th...