Las mugeres dan valor. (The women give 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 4.

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Las mugeres dan valor. (The women give 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 4.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Drawn and etched about 1811-1812

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis (direct tonal etching), drypoint, and burnisher; working proof

Dimensions Platemark: 15.7 x 20.7 cm (6 3/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 19.6 x 30.3 cm (7 11/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund

Accession Number51.1624

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 124, I, 1; Delteil 0123

DescriptionWorking proof, before letters, numbers, and before aquatint and lavis removed from edges (H. I, 1).

Marks No watermark
Verso: MFA Collection stamp (Lugt 282), without acc. number

InscriptionsU.l. in black ink: 6, u.r. in black chalk: 4

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)