Fuerte cosa es! (That's Tough!)
1810 / 1820
Francisco Goya
Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing (proof) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 15.5 × 20.3 cm (6 1/8 × 8 in.)
sheet: 19.4 × 25.1 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2019.16.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 1964, no. 151
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Series Title
Desastres de la guerra (plate 31)
More About this Artwork
Video: Two-Minute Tour: Aquatint
Join exhibition curator Rena Hoisington on a two-minute tour of Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, which was on view at the National Gallery of Art from October 24, 2021, to February 21, 2022.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Infante Don Sebastian de Borbón y Braganza; Georges Provôt, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 60); private collection, Germany; (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased by the NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1964
Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 227, fig. 12.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, at lower left: 32; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: Ld 150 [?]; verso: at bottom left in graphite in later hand: W 4868 20.7; at bottom center in graphite in later hand: 84050
Markings
none
Watermarks
SERRA