Francisco de Goya

They escape through the flames (Escapan entre las llamas)

Clasificación
They escape through the flames (Escapan entre las llamas)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1810 - 1812
Dimensiones
162 x 236 mm
Técnica y soporte
Etching and burin
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
13 Dec 2010 / 24 May 2023
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Goya (lower left-hand corner), 10 (lower left-hand corner)

Historia

See Sad presentiments of what must come to pass.

The title was handwritten on the print by Goya in the first and only series that is known to have been printed at the time the works were created, which the artist gave to his friend Agustín Ceán Bermúdez. Therefore, the title was etched into the plate at a later date and left unchanged as of the first edition of the Disasters of War printed by the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1863, after the printing of the series in the possession of Ceán Bermúdez.

There is a surviving preparatory drawing for this print which is housed in the Prado Museum.

Análisis artístico

A group of people has been surprised in the middle of the night by an explosion caused by the war. In the centre of the scene is a great blaze of light and we can see some men and women running away from the blast. The figures on the left-hand side of the composition are situated closest to the blast, and they cover their faces with their hands to avoid being burnt. In the centre, two men rush to drag a woman dressed in white and stripped to the waist away from the explosion. Near them, another man is carrying an injured man with a bandaged head. On the right, various figures flee the scene: terrified, they trample over others who have fallen to the floor.

This print can be linked to no. 30, Ravages of war (Estragos de la guerra), in which Goya depicts the consequences of a bombing on the inside of a house. The work also shows strong similarities with the artist's two paintings Goya of fires. In these works, the fire - or in the case of the print, the explosion - is the central point from which the people depicted in the work flee, driven by panic.

Goya has made masterful use of etching techniques, creating a lighter space in the centre - the dazzling blast of the fire - from which dense, parallel lines emanate, suggesting the explosion. In this way, the artist accentuates the idea of a centrifugal force that forces the figures to flee towards the space outside the frame of the composition.

Jesusa Vega establishes a link between this print and the previous one in the series, no. 40, He gets something out of it (Algun partido saca). In this case, the present work would represent the destruction of the Buen Retiro porcelain factory by English troops.

Conservación

The plate is stored in the National Chalcography (cat. 292).

Exposiciones
  • De grafiek van Goya
    Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet
    Amsterdam
    1970
    from November 13th 1970 to January 17th 1971
  • Francisco de Goya
    Museo d'Arte Moderna
    Lugano
    1996
    exhibition celebrated from September 22nd to November 17th.
  • Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996
    Galerie Kornfeld
    Bern
    1996
    from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
  • Francisco Goya. Capricci, follie e disastri della guerra
    San Donato Milanese
    2000
    Opere grafiche della Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
  • Goya. Opera grafica
    Pinacoteca del Castello di San Giorgio
    Legnano
    2006
    exhibition celebrated from December 16th 2006 to April 1st 2007
  • Goya et la modernité
    Pinacothèque de Paris
    París
    2013
    from October 11st 2013 to March 16th 2014
  • 2022
Bibliografía
  • BERUETE Y MONET, Aureliano de
    Goya, grabador
    MadridBlass S.A.
    1918
    cat. 143
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    cat. 161
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    cat. 1058
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    cat. 247
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 140
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 114-151
  • TORAL OROPESA, María and MARTÍN MEDINA, Víctor
    Museo de Bellas Artes de Badajoz y Diputación de Badajoz
    2022
    p. 66
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