On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00796
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- The Injured Mason
- Chronology
- 1786-1787
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 268 cm x 110 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Real Patrimonio, 1870
Two workers carry another, who has
been wounded in a work accident.
The scaffolding in the background
reveals the underlying subject as
workers' safety.
The painting is an example of
Goya's social preoccupations. In
the definitive composition, He
modified the idea of the original
sketch, in which the wounded and
clearly inebriated mason is the
subject of his companions' jokes
and laughter. Thus, Goya changes
the comic meaning of this scene
into a drama.
This cartoon was for one of the
tapestries intended for the Prince
of Asturias' dining room at the El
Pardo Palace.
