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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: There was no remedy

🖼 There was no remedy, 1797-98
Etching and aquatint
217 × 152 cm
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rendered in somber earth tones, a figure slumps in despair while others gesture helplessly around him. Goya's stark composition captures human suffering without sentimentality, reflecting Enlightenment anxieties about fate and powerlessness in Spanish society.

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