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What Courage! (Que valor!) Disasters of War 7
Que valor! (What courage!); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte. And other emphatic caprices [Disasters of War], plate 7.
What Courage! (Que valor!) Disasters of War 7
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1811–1812
Medium/Technique
Etching, direct etching with burnishing, and drypoint; working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.8 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.2 x 31 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.2 x 31 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1627
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 127, I, 2 ; Gassier and Wilson1000; Delteil 0126
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped. No bevel.
Working proof, before final number and letters, and before burin and additional drypoint, and aquatint added posthumously (H. I, 2).
Working proof, before final number and letters, and before burin and additional drypoint, and aquatint added posthumously (H. I, 2).
Signed
not signed
Marks
Watermark: SERRA
InscriptionsUpper right in graphite pencil: 7; lower left in etching: 41
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)