Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!), Francisco de Goya

Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!)

Plate 50 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Unhappy mother!' (Madre Infeliz!) (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish) (1746-1828)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1811–1812
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint
Dimensions: 15.5 × 20.5 cm
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

View the image on the museum's website ↗

Locate the museum on the interactive world map ↗

Figure Man Woman Little girl Child Corpse Body Death Carrying Weeping Grief Sadness Pain Mourning Hat Dress War Face Darkness Brown Group Monochrome Black and white Shadow Dark

← All works by Francisco de Goya

← A country dance; page 89 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)73 / 239Plate 59 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'What is the use of a cup?' ( De qué sirve una taza?) →

More works by Francisco de Goya

Plate 59 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'What is the use of a cup?' ( De qué sirve una taza?)

Plate 59 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'What is the use of a cup?' ( De qué sirve una taza?)

Plate 64 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Cartloads to the cemetery' (Carretadas al cementerio)

Plate 64 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Cartloads to the cemetery' (Carretadas al cementerio)

Portrait of the Actress Antonia Zarate

Portrait of the Actress Antonia Zarate

The Time and the old woman

The Time and the old woman

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Victor Guye

Plate 2 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Rightly or wrongly' (Con razon ó sin ella)

Plate 2 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Rightly or wrongly' (Con razon ó sin ella)

Plate 3 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The same' (Lo mismo)

Plate 3 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The same' (Lo mismo)