![No se puede saber por qué. (There is no way of telling why); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 35.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743927/full)
No se puede saber por qué. (There is no way of telling why); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 35.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–143
Medium/TechniqueEtching, sulfur tint (?), burnished lavis, and drypoint; working proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 15.4 x 25.6 cm (6 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 22 x 31.3 cm (8 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22 x 31.3 cm (8 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line1951 Purchase Fund
Accession number51.1658
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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)
![Ni por esas. (Neither do these); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 11.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743874/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1810–14
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; whole series first published posthumously 1863
![Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain Against Bonaparte [Disasters of War], plate 6.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743860/thumbnail)
![Bien te se está. (It serves you right); 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 6.](/internal/media/dispatcher/743869/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1811-12
![Qué alborato es este? (What is this hubbub?); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 65 (one of the "caprichos enfáticos").](/internal/media/dispatcher/838914/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815; published 1816
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815; printed 19th century
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1815; Late 19th to early 20th century printing
![No se puede saber por que. [No se puede saber por qué.] (There is no way of telling why.); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 35](/internal/media/dispatcher/748523/thumbnail)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1814–15; published 1863