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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a 19th century Spanish painter and printmaker.
1746-1828
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Girl Listening to a Guitar https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/girl-listening-to-a-guitar-1799
Girl Listening to a Guitar
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Boy on a Ram https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111559/
As a painter to the king of Spain, Francisco de Goya produced designs for tapestries for the royal residences, to be woven at the king's tapestry works. The artist made small oil sketches to work out the designs, followed by full-scale painted cartoons that served as guides for the weavers. This cartoon is for a tapestry in a series decorating the dining room of the Prince of Asturias, in the Palace of El Pardo, outside Madrid. The room's large panels illustrate a traditional decorative subject, the Four Seasons, but Goya exercised his imagination in the smaller panels above the doors, producing scenes of children and animals like this one. Goya's remarkably fresh, original tapestry cartoons are mostly preserved in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McCormick
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Otro modo de cazar á pie (Another Way of Hunting on Foot) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/123615/
two men flanking a bull, each stabbing it with staffs, in the shoulder and PR side, in a spare grey landscape with trees at center middle ground In the 33-print series "Tauromaquia," Goya traces the history of bullfighting in Spain, from men hunting in open fields, as seen in Otro modo de cazar á pie (Another Way of Hunting on Foot), to the modern, ritualized spectacle it became in the 18th century. Goya captures the brut nature of the bull, whose mournful expression shows defeat as he struggles submissively to lift his head. The print is technically sophisticated in its combination of etching, drypoint, engraving, and the new medium of aquatint, which Goya deployed to luminous, evocative effect.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Junta of the Philippines https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-junta-of-the-philippines-1815
The Junta of the Philippines
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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These Too https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57921/
Plate 25
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Get Them Well and On to the Next https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57692/
Plate 20
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Procession of Monks https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/procession-of-monks
Procession of Monks
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Two Old Men / Two Monks / An Old Man and a Monk https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/two-monks-1823
Two Old Men / Two Monks / An Old Man and a Monk
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The sleep of reason produces monsters https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-sleep-of-reason-produces-monsters-1799
The sleep of reason produces monsters
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Por que fue sensible https://collections.artsmia.org/art/80343/
binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Charles III https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/charles-iii-1788
Charles III
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The Fight at the Venta Nueva https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-fight-at-the-venta-nueva-1777
The Fight at the Venta Nueva
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Two Heads Are Better Than One https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58301/
Plate 11
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Appeals Are In Vain https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58065/
Plate 54
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The shy man https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-shy-man-1799
The shy man
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Pedro Romero https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/pedro-romero
Pedro Romero
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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El amor y la muerte https://collections.artsmia.org/art/80320/
binding: mottled calf, gilt tooled with a green panel on spine lettered: CAPRICH DE GOYA; endpapers: contemporary Spanish marbled papers Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos contains layers of meaning that even today challenge the modern viewer. Mia’s copy is a rare presentation proof containing early printings of all eighty images. In the first half, Goya explored themes of superstition, sensuality, greed, and violence with scenes set in Spanish brothels, salons, and prisons. The second half is given over to fantastic images from the artist’s dreams and nightmares. Even though Goya tried to disguise his attacks on Spanish society, he withdrew the set from sale because he had been reported to the Inquisition, a tribunal that ruled with lethal authority.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The Same Elsewhere https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57920/
Plate 23
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Don Pedro, Duke of Osuna https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/don-pedro-duke-of-osuna
Don Pedro, Duke of Osuna
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Truth has died, plate 79 from The Disasters of War https://www.artic.edu/artworks/124932/
Though not the last plate of the series, this print finalizes its central themes in a profound manner, claiming that truth itself is dead. Here, personified by a shining corpse about to be buried, truth connotes constitutional liberty. Justice is featured at the right, clasping her scales in her left hand. She covers her face, perhaps weeping, as if she cannot bear the scene before her. By ending the series on this note of despair, Francisco de Goya brought an answer to the question of what must come to pass (plate one)—the final blow of war is that truth is dead and justice despondent. Gift of J. C. Cebrian
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Ridiculous dream https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/ridiculous-dream
Ridiculous dream
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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It Will Be The Same https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57919/
Plate 21
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The Duchess of Alba https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-duchess-of-alba-1797
The Duchess of Alba
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Here neither https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/here-neither-1815
Here neither
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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He Defends Himself Well https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58084/
Plate 78
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM