Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer (Sad presentiments of what must come to pass)

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: 1; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 1 Watermark: HGO/Palmette

Label

In this selection of four prints from Goya’s series, the artist evokes the many emotions of war. Plate 1 features a man with haunting eyes kneeling against a dark background. His vulnerable position and distraught expression speak to the anxiety at the onset of battle. In his subsequent images, Goya presents the desolation of ravaged bodies, the fear before enemy combatants, and the resignation of survivors. Throughout the series, Goya uses a variety of techniques to create shadows that dramatize the imagery; he favored aquatint, an artistic technique that creates tonal areas through application of powered resin to the printing plate. The grisly reality of the representations—blood dripping down one man’s face—memorializes the occupation. Goya’s captions, written by the artist, offer sometimes ironic commentary, evoking emotions of pain, resignation, and sorrow.

From the exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming

Course History

ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012

SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013

FILM 47, From The Fall of the Wall to 9-11: Understanding the New World Disorder, Mark Williams, James Nachtwey, Spring 2013

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012

SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014

SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Jose del Pino, Winter 2014

SPAN 31, Introduction to Hispanic Studies II: 18th and 19th Centuries, Txetxu Aguado, Winter 2014

SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014

ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015

Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2023

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke 1, Summer 2023

Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Josh Dannin, Summer 2023

Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2024

Spanish 31.02, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2024

Facilitated Experience: Special Tour - From Goya to Photojournalism, Summer 2023

Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Spanish Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Summer 2024

Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Spanish Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Summer 2024

Exhibition History

A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.

Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 8-December 9, 1990.

Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 23-December 9, 2023.

Publication History

Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.95, no. 102.

Hilliard T. Goldfarb and Reva Wolf, Fatal Consequences: Callot, Goya, and the Horrors of War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1990.

Provenance

Date unknown, in the collection of Felix Somary (1881-1956), Vienna and Zurich; sold Sotheby's, New York, May 3, 1978, lot 2; purchased by Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama; 1991 given to Dartmouth College by Adolph Weil, Jr., Class of 1935.

Catalogue Raisonne

Delteil 120; Harris 121

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