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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Sad Forebodings of What is Going to Happen, plate one from The Disasters of War

1814/20, published 1863
Etching, burin, drypoint and burnishing on ivory wove paper with gilt edges
14.7 × 19 cm (5.8 × 7.5 in)

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The lone figure kneeling in a garden evokes Christ in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion. Ill-defined chaos swirls in the dark background, as the man’s outstretched arms signal his apprehension of and abandonment to the unknown future.

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