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The shocking subject of these prints is incongruous with Goya’s careful manner of rendering the musculature of bodies with patterns of fine lines and stippled dots. In this image Goya reverses the role of the aggressors, showing the mutilation of a Spaniard by French soldiers.
While early in the series the Spanish were often portrayed as protagonists, the similarities between A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men! (Grande hazaña! Con muertos!) and What More Can Be Done? (Qué Hai Que Hacer Más?) reveal Goya’s understanding that those on both sides of the conflict were capable of the greatest imaginable atrocities
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| Titles: | What More Can Be Done? (Qué Hai Que Hacer Más?) Plate 33 from the series Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War) |
| Date: | 1810-1814, published 1863 |
| Artists: | Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828) Printed by Calcografía Nacional, Madrid Published by Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando |
| Medium: | Etching and aquatint |
| Dimensions: | Plate: 6 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches (15.6 x 20.5 cm) |
| Classification: | Prints |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1949 |
| Accession Number: | 1949-97-27(33) |
| Geography: | Printed in Madrid, Spain, Europe |
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