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02-06-2026
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Engraver
Fuendetodos, Zaragoza (Spain), 1746 - Bordeaux (France), 1828 - Engraver
Laureano Potenciano Pastor
Madrid, 1837 - ¿Madrid?, 1864
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

It always happens [Siempre sucede]

1810 - 1814. Etching, Drypoint on wove paper.
Not on display

In this series of prints executed between 1810 and 1814 Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Spanish Peninsular War (1808-14) that is remote from the propagandistic images produced by his contemporaries. Through his etchings the artist condemned the irrationality of war and the brutality of both sides, which inevitably resulted in suffering, pain and death. The series’ meaning transcends a visual presentation of a specific conflict and can be considered the first critique of war in general. Disasters of War was the title added by the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1863 for the first edition of these prints, which were not published in Goya’s lifetime.

This print depicts an episode frequently seen in the war, as its title indicates. With enormous expressivity, Goya shows a French soldier and his horse, the principal element in the composition, in a dramatic fall. The prominence given to horses, which were collateral victims of the human violence, reached its peak in the artist’s painting The Second of May 1808 in Madrid (P000748).

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Inventory number
G002338
Authors
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes -Engraver-; Laureano Potenciano Pastor; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Title
It always happens [Siempre sucede]
Date
1810 - 1814
Technique
Etching; Drypoint
Support
Wove paper
Dimension
Height: 248 mm; Width: 345 mm; Height of the plate mark: 178 mm; Width of the plate mark: 219 mm
Series
Desastres de la guerra [estampa], 8
Provenance
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; Eduardo Luis Moreda Fernández; Museo del Prado, 2000
Entry date
2000

Bibliography +

Brunet, M.G., Étude sur Francisco Goya sa vie et ses travaux, Aubry, Paris, 1865, pp. 50.

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Delteil, Loys, Francisco Goya, I, Chez L'Auteur, Paris, 1922.

Mayer, August L., Francisco de Goya, Labor, Barcelona, 1925, pp. 231.

Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique, Los desastres de la guerra de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios, Instituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico, Barcelona, 1952, pp. 26, 60.

Harris, Tomas, Goya, engravings and lithographs, II, Bruno Cassirer, Oxford, 1964, pp. 188.

Gassier, Pierre y Wilson-Bareau, Juliet, Vie et oeuvre de Francisco de Goya: l' oeuvre complet illustré: peintures, dessins, gravures, Office du Livre, Fribourg, 1970.

Sayre, Eleanor, The Changing Image. Prints by Francisco Goya, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1974, pp. 137.

Derozier, C., La Guerre D'Independance Espagnole a Travers L'Estampe (1808..., II, Universidad de Lille, Lille, 1976, pp. 852.

Vega, Jesusa, Fatales consecuencias de la guerra. Francisco de Goya, pintor, Francisco de Goya, grabador: instantáneas, Caser y Calcografía Nacional, Madrid, 1992, pp. 32.

Vega, Jesusa, Museo del Prado: catálogo de estampas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1992, pp. 84.

Matilla, José Manuel y Blas, Javier, El libro de los desastres de la guerra: Francisco de Goya, Museo Nacional del Prado; Calcografía Nacional, Madrid, 2000, pp. 22-23.

Obras adscritas al Museo Nacional del Prado en el año 2000, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XIX, 2001, pp. 200.

Nieto Alcaide, Víctor, La guerra y lo imaginario en la pintura de Goya, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 319-329.

Calcografía Nacional (España), Calcografía Nacional: catálogo general, II, Calcografía Nacional, Madrid, 2004, pp. 459.

Matilla, José Manuel, Estampas españolas de la Guerra de la Independencia: propaganda, conmemoración y testimonio, Universidad de Salamanca, 2008.

Bordes J., Matilla J.M. y Balsells S, Goya, cronista de todas las guerras: los "desastres" y la fotografía de guerra, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno y Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Madrid, 2009, pp. 96.

Hofmann, Julius, Francisco de Goya: Katalog seines graphischen Werkes, Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Viena, 2014, pp. 91-145.

Iarocci, Michael P., The art of witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of war, University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 52-55.

Pérez Francés, José Antonio, Aragón en los Desastres de la guerra de Francisco de Goya, Institución Fernando el Católico,, Zaragoza, 2025, pp. 39-62 [65-84, Anexo 2].

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2564.

Inscriptions +

8 // Siempre sucede.
Lettered in the plate. Front, lower area

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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