Las mugeres dan valor (The Women Give Courage)
Francisco Goya
1810
- Medium
- Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis, and drypoint
- Dimensions
- 5 5/16 x 7 1/4 in. (13.49 x 18.42 cm) (image) 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (24.13 x 32.7 cm) (sheet)
- Genre
Tags
Spain
About
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.
