Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Barbarians!' (Bárbaros!), Francisco de Goya

Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Barbarians!' (Bárbaros!)

Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Barbarians!' (Bárbaros!) (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1810
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin, burnisher
Dimensions: 15.5 × 20.5 cm
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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