Caridad de una muger (A woman's charity)

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Caridad de una muger.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: 49; lower left: 56; inscribed, in graphite, upper right: 49 Watermark: HGO/Palmette

Label

This group of Goya’s prints attest to the mental toll of violence, which is inseparable from the physical horrors represented here. These prints focus the viewer’s attention on the plight of women during wartime. Women appear at the center of each image. Plate 11 features French soldiers menacing civilian women, casting a baby on the ground. In Plate 49, a group flees from a fire, which highlights the fainting body of a young woman held aloft. With hunched shoulders and solemn faces, the women speak to the profound misery resulting from French brutality, as well as a degree of resignation at the ongoing war. In addition to physical attacks, the Spanish faced famine and widespread starvation resulting from the occupation. In Plate 49, a woman, back turned to the viewer, brings food to the hungry. Men beg in Plate 58, while a lone woman in white stands, seemingly helpless. Goya’s attention to women in his print series records the experiences of civilians whose histories are otherwise lost.

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

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

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.99, no. 150.

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 168; Harris 169

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