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Que valor! (What courage!); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte. And other emphatic caprices [Disasters of War], plate 7.

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
1811–1812
Medium/TechniqueEtching, direct etching with burnishing, and drypoint; working proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.8 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.2 x 31 cm (8 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line1951 Purchase Fund
Accession number51.1627
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsUpper right in graphite pencil: 7; lower left in etching: 41
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)
Disparate Claro (Evident Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 15
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1811- 12; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863