Brown etching of a hooded figure slumped on the ground beside a pile of skulls and a tipped cart, with dark hatched background.

What Madness! (Plate 68, The Disasters of War)

An etching with lavis in warm brown tones shows a hooded, slumped figure in a loose robe sprawled on the ground beside a heap of skulls and a tipped-over cart or crate. Dark, scratchy hatching fills the background, and the caption "Que locura!" appears in the plate margin below.

Artist: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Date: 1815/20, published 1863
Medium: Etching, lavis and burin on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1196 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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