It’s a hard step!
1810 - 1814. Burnished wash, Drypoint, Burin, Etching on wove paper.Not on display
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02-06-2026
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Engraver
- Fuendetodos, Zaragoza (Spain), 1746 - Bordeaux (France), 1828 - Engraver
- Calcografía Nacional - Printer
- Madrid, 1789 - Printer
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Not on display
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Commented works: The Pradera de San Isidro, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, (1788), by Enrique Quintana
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- Etching on laid paper, 1810 - 1814
- Calcografía Nacional - Printer
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando - Editor
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Engraver
- It’s a hard step!
- Burnished wash on wove paper, 1810 - 1814
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Engraver
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando - Editor
- Laureano Potenciano Pastor - Estampador
- Inventory number
- G000735
- Authors
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes -Engraver-; Calcografía Nacional -Printer-; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Title
- It’s a hard step!
- Date
- 1810 - 1814
- Technique
- Burnished wash; Drypoint; Burin; Etching
- Support
- Wove paper
- Dimension
- Height: 252 mm; Width: 335 mm; Width of the plate mark: 168 mm; Height of the plate mark: 143 mm
- Series
- Desastres de la guerra [estampa], 14 (23)
- Provenance
- Bequest of Tomás Harris, 1964
- Entry date
- 1964
Bibliography +
Nieto Alcaide, Víctor, La guerra y lo imaginario en la pintura de Goya, Barcelona, 2003, pp. 319-329.
Bernardi López Vázquez, José Manuel, En el germen del Liberalismo español. La filosofía neoestoica en los Desastres de la Guerra de Goya., Quintana, 13, 2014, pp. 27 f.19.
Iarocci, Michael P., The art of witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of war, University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 80-85.
Pérez Francés, José Antonio, Aragón en los Desastres de la guerra de Francisco de Goya, Institución Fernando el Católico,, Zaragoza, 2025, pp. 39-62 [158-164].
Inscriptions +
14 // Duro es el paso! // 23
Lettered in the plate.
Front
Thomas Harris. [Lugt, n. 4921]
Brown ink stamp.
Back, lower central area
Visor 360
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