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03-06-2026
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

They make use of them [Se aprovechan]

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

Disasters of War, 16, They make use of them.

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.

In his prints from the Disasters of War series Goya made use of religious iconography to show the most heart-rending aspect of the war. As in The Third of May in Madrid (P000749), in which the protagonist evokes Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, here the body of the victim being stripped of his clothes recalls the traditional pose of the recumbent dead Christ.

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Inventory number
G004342
Authors
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes -Engraver-; Laureano Potenciano Pastor; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Title
They make use of them [Se aprovechan]
Date
1810 - 1814
Technique
Etching; Wash; Burin; Drypoint; Burnisher
Support
Wove paper
Dimension
Height: 248 mm; Alto de la mancha: 162 mm; Ancho de la mancha: 237 mm; Width: 345 mm
Series
Desastres de la guerra [estampa], 16 (4)
Provenance
Collection of the Madrazo family (José de Madrazo and his sons Federico, Luis and Juan de Madrazo y Kuntz); by inheritance to María Teresa Madrazo y Madrazo, 1897; Mario Daza Campos, 1940; Daza Juliá sisters, 1943; purchased from Juan José Daza del Castillo, 2006
Entry date
2006

Bibliography +

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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. 37-38.

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Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2756.

Inscriptions +

16 // Goya // Se aprovechan. // 4
Lettered in the plate. Front

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