Fuerte cosa es! (That's Tough!)

1810 / 1820

Francisco Goya

Artist, Spanish, 1746 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing (proof) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation and Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.5 × 20.3 cm (6 1/8 × 8 in.)
    sheet: 19.4 × 25.1 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1964, no. 151

More About this Artwork

Video:  Two-Minute Tour: Aquatint

Join exhibition curator Rena Hoisington on a two-minute tour of Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, which was on view at the National Gallery of Art from October 24, 2021, to February 21, 2022.


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Infante Don Sebastian de Borbón y Braganza; Georges Provôt, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, April 10, 1935, lot 60); private collection, Germany

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1964

  • Harris, Tomás. Goya: engravings and lithographs. 2 vols. Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 227, fig. 12.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower left: 32; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: Ld 150 [?]; verso: at bottom left in graphite in later hand: W 4868 20.7; at bottom center in graphite in later hand: 84050

Markings

none

Watermarks

SERRA


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