Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1814–1820
- 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.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
warprintprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
