Francisco de Goya

It Will Be the Same (Será lo mismo)

Clasificación
It Will Be the Same (Será lo mismo)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1810 - 1812
Dimensiones
148 x 218 mm
Técnica y soporte
Etching and burnished lavis
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
01 Dec 2010 / 02 Jun 2023
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Goya (lower left-hand corner), 25 (lower left-hand corner).

Historia

See Sad presentiments of what must come to pass.

The second artist's proof shows that Goya etched his signature into the lower left-hand corner of the plate.

The title was handwritten on the print by Goya on the first and only series that we know was produced at the time of its creation, 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 in Madrid.

Análisis artístico

In this print Goya depicts a scene that is probably taking place at night, given the extreme darkness of the setting. The print shows men trying to carry away some corpses. On the right, two men are holding a body wrapped in a white sheet that has been given great pictorial depth. Next to these two men in the middle ground, a figure covered from head to foot - perhaps a female relative of one of the dead - covers her face with her hands. On the left-hand side of the print are three more dead bodies.

The title of the print highlights the futility of moving the bodies, since taking them somewhere else will be no different to leaving them where they are: there is nothing that can be done.

This image must be understood in the context of print no. 22,All This and More, and nº 23,The Same Elsewhere, in which the artist also represents open spaces littered with piles of corpses. In both cases, the scenes have a markedly horizontal composition that transmits a strong sensation of stillness and peace, as well as a sense of sepulchral silence.

The moving of corpses after a battle is a theme also dealt with by Fernando Brambila (Cassano d'Adda, 1763-Madrid, 1832) and Juan Gálvez (Mora, Toledo, 1774-Madrid, 1847) in the print entitled Second Ruin of the Interior of the Church of the General Hospital (Ruina segunda del interior de la yglesia del hospital general) (ca. 1812-1813, Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid).

Conservación

The plate is stored in the National Chalcography (cat. 272)

Exposiciones
  • Goya and his times
    The Royal Academy of Arts
    London
    1963
    cat. 66
  • 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
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • 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. 123
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    cat. 141
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    cat. 1027
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    cat. 219
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 130
  • 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. 62
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