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Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from "Los Desatres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 6, mounted in a bound album.
Image Not Available for Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from "Los Desatres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 6, mounted in a bound album.

Bien te se está. (It serves you right); from "Los Desatres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 6, mounted in a bound album.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1811-12; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/TechniqueEtching, sulfur tint and/or lavis (direct etching), aquatint (?) and burin; posthumous trial proof
DimensionsPlatemark: 14.4 × 21 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.2 × 34.8 cm (10 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Overal (dimensions of album)l: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. André Merminod and by exchange from the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wheelwright
Accession number1973.732.6
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEtched l.l.,: Goya; engraved u.l.: 6; l. l. :26 (poorly printed, the 2 not visable); in graphite, u.r. inside pm, 6; below image, outside pm., Bien te se está.ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (Original vote June 13, 1973).
Disparate de Tontos (Fool's Folly) from the Disparates series
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched, 1816-19, printed about 1877