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Y no hai remedio (And there's no help for it),
1808/09–12, printed 1863
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746–1828; born Fuendetodos, Spain; died Bordeaux, France
Published by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spanish, founded 1744
Published by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Spanish, founded 1744
2011-86
The French invasion of northern Spain in the spring of 1808 and the ensuing Peninsular War subjected the Spanish people to six years of terror, slaughter, and extreme privation and moved Goya to produce his haunting series of etchings and aquatints The Disasters of War. With the restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy under Ferdinand VII in 1814, the repressive political climate prevented Goya from publishing the plates in his lifetime. Subsequently, the first bound edition of The Disasters of War did not appear until 1863. The publication of the series created an immediate sensation, and Manet is known to have owned a set of the impressions.
Information
Title
Y no hai remedio (And there's no help for it)
Dates
1808/09–12, printed 1863
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burin
Dimensions
plate: 14 x 16.8 cm. (5 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25 x 34.5 cm. (9 13/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
2011-86
Place Made
Europe, Spain, Madrid
Inscription
Numbered in plate, upper right corner: 15
Titled in plate, lower center: Y no hai remedio.
Reference Numbers
Delteil 134; Harris 135
Materials
Techniques
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Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1906-1930).
, no. 155 (illus.) - Tomás Harris, Goya: Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1964)., no. 156
- Javier Blas, El libro de los desastres de la guerra (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2000)., no. 36
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132., pp. 76–77 (illus.)
