Francisco Goya

The Custody of a Prisoner Does Not Call for Torture (La seguridad de un reo no exige tormento)

ca. 1815; published ca. 1859

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching, burin ('Goya' inscribed in pencil lower right, not in the artist's hand)

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 3/8 in. (25.1 × 18.8 cm) Image: 4 7/16 × 3 3/8 in. (11.3 × 8.5 cm)

Collection no.

2015.480

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Francisco Goya. The Custody of a Prisoner Does Not Call for Torture (La seguridad de un reo no exige tormento). Francisco Goya; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2015. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.