Sepia etching of a grieving mother held up by a man as a small child covers her face at right, with a dark smoky background.

Unhappy Mother!, Plate 50 from The Disasters of War

A sepia etching shows a woman in a pale dress staggering forward, supported by a man in a dark hat, while a figure in the background is hunched on the ground. A small child in a white dress stands apart at right, hands pressed to her face in grief. Burnished aquatint gives the dark ground a soft, smoky texture.

Artist: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Date: 1812/15, published 1863
Medium: Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1204 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1863).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of J. C. Cebrian

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