Francisco 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?)

1811–12 (published 1863)

Dating

Approximate

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis

Dimensions

Plate: 6 × 8 in. (15.3 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 1/2 in. (25 × 34.3 cm)

Collection no.

22.60.25(59)

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Francisco 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?). Francisco Goya; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.