Francisco De Goya Truth Has Died Plate 79 Disasters of War Etching W/Coa

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Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1726 -1848) unframed etching, titled 'Murio la Verdad' (Truth Has Died), Plate 79 from Los desastres … Read more Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1726 -1848) unframed etching, titled 'Murio la Verdad' (Truth Has Died), Plate 79 from Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War). Titled in pencil. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.
As stated on COA: "Etching printed in black ink on thick wove paper. Executed by Kunstanstalt JB Obernetter from the design of Goya."
"Originally conceived between 1810 and 1820. This example executed in a small edition c1900 in Germany. Extremely rare."

Measures 9 1/2" x 11 1/2"

Excellent condition.

Goya made no prints for a decade after the publication of the Caprichos, but during the war against the French invaders between 1808 and 1814 (known outside of Spain as the Peninsular Wars), Goya turned again to etching to create pessimistic images castigating human stupidity and the horrors that some men inflicted on others. Only one of the eighty Disasters of War prints—the one depicting a young woman in a white dress firing a cannon—records a heroic action; the rest show atrocities or suffering, such as that incurred by the widespread famine toward the end of the war. These were not published until 1863, thirty-five years after Goya’s death. See less