Francisco de Goya

There is no more time (Ya no hai tiempo)

Clasificación
There is no more time (Ya no hai tiempo)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1810 - 1812
Dimensiones
165 x 238 mm
Técnica y soporte
Etching, aquatint, burin, drypoint and burnisher
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Ficha: realización/revisión
30 Nov 2010 / 02 Jun 2023
Inventario
225
Inscripciones

Goya (lower left-hand corner), 19 (lower left-hand corner, inverted).

Historia

See Sad presentiments of what must come to pass.

In the second state proof, the skirt and the shoulder of the woman in the centre were retouched. The faces of the women in the centre were reworked with drypoint and the etching on the other figures was emphasized in burin.

The title was handwritten by Goya on the first and only print run that we know to have been made at the time, and which the painter gave to his friend Agustín Ceán Bermúdez. The title was engraved on to the copperplate at a later date, and no other modifications were made to the image for the first edition of the Disasters of War, which was printed by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, in 1863.

We can see how a correction was made to the title, adding the letter ‘y' where an ‘i' had probably been engraved initially.

There is a preparatory drawing in the Prado Museum.

Análisis artístico

A group of Mamluk soldiers has caught a group of Spaniards by surprise. One of these has been killed whilst trying to defend the women accompanying them. Another Spaniard is about to be murdered with a sword, but the woman in the centre of the composition has grabbed hold of the Mamluk's hand in an attempt to stop him. In this same moment, the woman faces another of the attackers, his back to the viewer, whilst the woman next to her, who is somewhat older, has put her hands together to beg for mercy. In the background, another woman has been seized by a third Turkish soldier. But whatever he had planned for her will no longer occur, since the Mamluk who has his back turned to us is raising his hands as if to say, just as in the etching's title, "There is no more time". Something has forced the Turkish soldiers to leave.

On this occasion, the women appear to have been lucky and to have escaped the brutal violence to which women are subjected in so many other etchings in the Disasters of War series.

Conservación

The etching plate is conserved in the National Chalcography Museum (cat. 270)

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • 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. 121
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    Goya engravings and lithographs, vol. I y II.
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    cat. 139
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    cat. 1022
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    cat. 215
  • OROPESA, Marisa and RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wilfredo
    ParísPinacoteca de París
    2013
    p. 129
  • 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. 61
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