BOGOTA.- Thieves have stolen an engraving by Spanish master Francisco de Goya from the Gilberto Alzate Avendano Foundation. The engraving by Spanish master Francisco de Goya is titled Tristes Presentimientos de lo que ha de suceder and it was one of 80 by the Spanish artist in a temporary exhibition on war at the Colombian museum.

The work is part of "Disasters of War," a series of 80 engravings Goya made between 1810 and 1815. In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction. The prints were not published until 1863, 35 years after Goya's death.