Populacho. (Rabble.)
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746 - 1828
1810-1820
Etching, aquatint and scraping on paper
First edition, made prior to all corrections
Plate: 6 7/8 × 8 9/16 in. (17.5 × 21.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 11/16 × 12 13/16 in. (24.6 × 32.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.991.50.1.28
Portfolio / Series Title
Number 28 of 80 from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)
Publisher
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Populacho.; inscribed, in plater, upper left: 28; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 28 Watermark: HGO/Palmette
Label
Goya’s series chronicled both the abuses of the French soldiers and the Spanish resistance to the war. In these three prints, the artist records moments of opposition by civilians, returning agency and action to the conquered people. While one older woman in Plate 9 prepares to surprise a soldier with her bared knife, other Spaniards enact their revenge on the dead bodies of the invaders. Dragged, kicked, and stabbed, the fallen foreigners become a focus for local anger and desperation. With their faces impassive or seemingly hollowed out by the ongoing horrors of the conflict, the avenging Spaniards in these images appear to derive little satisfaction from their vengeance. The grim sensibility is heightened by the dark tones of the prints. One of Goya’s titles suggests sympathy with the civilians, proclaiming: He deserved it.
From the 2023 exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming
Course History
FILM 47, From The Fall of the Wall to 9-11: Understanding the New World Disorder, Mark Williams, James Nachtwey, Spring 2013
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
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
Facilitated Experience: Special Tour - From Goya to Photojournalism, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
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, May 20-August 20, 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.98, no. 129.
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 147; Harris 148
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