Que valor! (What Courage!)

published 1863

Francisco Goya

Associated Names
Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

The image shows a woman standing behind a cannon, with her back facing the viewer. Her left hand is resting on the cannon, and her dark hair is pulled back into a bun. She is wearing a long dress and there are bodies on the ground around her. The background is a barren landscape with a faint hill in the distance. The woman is not wearing any visible jewelry or holding any objects. The scene is depicted in grayscale.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, and burnishing on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.4 × 20.6 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 24.1 × 29 cm (9 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.141.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 127, State iii/iii

  • Series Title

    Desastres de la guerra (pl. 7)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walter Kropatscheck, Helgoland, Germany (1905 - 1995)(Lugt 3953). Beverly and Christopher With, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964: no. 127, iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Que valor!; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 355/2

Markings

recto: none; verso: Walter Kropatscheck (Lugt 3953)

Watermarks

J and fragment of wing

Wikidata ID

Q77015545

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