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A preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from the Disasters of War, of which only two prints are known. The composition is framed in red chalk and the corners are emphasized with touches of the [+]
The wall decoration for which this design was intended was presumably over an altar dedicated to the Eucharist. The Old Testament story of Elijah visited by an angel was a prolepsis for the Eucharist. [+]
Preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 45, And this too.In this series of prints executed between 1810 and 1814 Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Spanish Peninsu [+]
Jesús, semiarrodillado en una piedra, aguarda el bautismo. San Juan agachado recoge el agua del río Jordán. Dos ángeles, tras Jesús, sostienen sus vestiduras; otros a la derecha dialogan. En el cielo [+]
This is one of the six strange ink drawings that has been included in the group of preparatory drawings for the Disasters of War, although they are very different in conception, composition, technique [+]
In this drawing and the These, too (D04345), Goya presents one of his harshest criticisms. At first glance, both seem to depict village people picking up the war wounded and carrying them to the hospi [+]
Preparatory drawing for Capricho 26. This drawing illustrates the Spanish expression sentar la cabeza, literally seating one’s head, or acquiring some sense and moderation. While the young women “alre [+]
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A preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 52, They do not arrive in time.In this series of prints executed between 1810 and 1814 Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the [+]
A preparatory drawing for Disasters of War, 11, Not even this way.In this series of prints executed between 1810 and 1814 Goya offers a critical and personal vision of the consequences of the Spanish [+]
This is a preparatory study, with only some differences, for Calvaert´s painting of the Holy Family with St. Catherine and the Infant St. John the Baptist in the Gemäldegalerie, Oldenburg, [+]
This drawing related to one of the Disasters was neither engraved nor published. Its composition merges two groups of figures from drawing D03990. The postures and formal definition coincide in both d [+]
This drawing related to the Disasters was never engraved. It is technically and stylistically related to five other ink drawings included in the group of preparatory drawings for The Disasters of War [+]
The two saints kneeling in the foreground are the little-known St. John of Matha, a native of Faucon in Provence, and St. Felix of Valois, who lived at the turn of the twelfth century. Both were found [+]
Preparatory drawing for Capricho 28 (G02116) .The title, which is taken from the Caprichos, refers to the word used to impose silence, and in this case to the corrupt habits of aristocratic women who [+]
This vaulted space, the site of what seems to be a visit to a quack, is a typical feature used in Goya´s composition when his intention is to create a dark atmosphere for symbolic purposes. The scene [+]
The absence of a title written by Goya opnes up the possibilities of interpretation for his drawings, where three figures are arranged in different postures in front of a fence positioned in the backg [+]
