Painting #062 - Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya 

(1746–1828, Spanish Romantic)

Painter Francisco Goya witnessed first-hand the French occupation of Spain in 1808, when Napoleon used the pretext of reinforcing his army in Portugal to seize the Spanish throne for his brother Joseph.

(The Spanish could accept their demented monarch be replaced by their prince royal.)  Attempts to remove members of the Spanish royal family from Madrid provoked a widespread rebellion. This popular uprising occurred on the second and third of May 1808, when suppressed by French forces.

The Second of May 1808 / The Charge of the Mamelukes

- Goya 

- oil on canvas (266 × 345 cm) 1814 

- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

The Second of May 1808 depicts the beginning of the uprising when the Mamelukes of the elite French Imperial Guard are ordered to charge and subdue the rioting citizens. 

Goya in Bordeaux (1999) film

The crowd sees the Mamelukes as Moors, provoking an angry response. Instead of dispersing, the crowd turned on the charging Mamelukes, resulting in a ferocious melee.

The Third of May 188 
/ The execution of the defenders of Madrid

- Goya 

- oil on canvas (266 × 345 cm) 1814 

- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

The Mamelukes are ordered to charge and subdue the rioting citizens.

 

Third of May 1808

The Spanish asked for help from Britain, which had a limitless will to support the opponents of the Revolutionary France.

Joseph Bournaparte, made king of Spain, took the Spanish crown jewels and much of the royal collection of pictures, which were later captured by Wellington and are now in his London residence, Apsley House. (Shouldn't they be returned to Spain?) 

The Disasters of War

Los desastres de la guerra is a series of 82 prints created between 1810 and 1820 by painter and printmaker Goya. Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates, art historians view them as a visual protest against 

* the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising (plates 1 - 47),

* the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–1814 and 

* the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814.

The Disasters of War - No. 03
(The same)
- Goya
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

A man about to cut off the head of a soldier with an axe.

The Disasters of War - No. 15
 (And it cannot be helped)
- Goya
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

 Prisoners executed by firing squads, reminiscent of The Third of May 1808.

1808 Dos de mayo uprising

- Aniceto Marinas

- bronze & limestone (3.50 m) 1908

- Plaza de España (Madrid)

Charles IV of Spain and His Family  

- with Goya and by Goya 

- oil on canvas (280 × 336 cm) 1800 

- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

The Parasol
- Goya
- oil on linen (104 × 152 cm) c.1777
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Dance of the Majos at the Banks of Manzanares
- Goya
- oil on canvas (272 x 295 cm) 1777
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

La maja vestida / The Clothed Maja
- Francisco Goya
- oil on canvas (97 × 190 cm) 1800-05
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

La maja desnuda / The Naked Maja
- Francisco Goya
- oil on canvas (97 × 190 cm) 1797-1800
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

The White Duchess
- Francisco Goya
- oil on canvas (192 × 128 cm) 1795
- House of Alba, Liria Palace (Madrid)

It portrays Maria Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba.

The Countess del Carpio
- Francisco Goya
 - oil on canvas (181 x 122 cm) 1793-95
- Louvre (Paris)

The Burial of the Sardine
- Francisco Goya
- oil on wood (82.5 × 62 cm) c.1812-19
- Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid)

Asmodea / Fantastic Vision
- Francisco Goya
- oil on gesso, to linen (127 × 263 cm) c.1820-23
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Saturn Devouring His Son
- Francisco Goya
- mixed media mural transferred to canvas
(144 × 81 cm) c.1819-23
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Witches' Sabbath
- Goya
- oil on plaster wall, to canvas (141 × 436 cm) 1821-23
 - Museo del Prado (Madrid)

* one of 14 from the Black Paintings series

The Dog
- Francisco Goya
- oil mural on plaster, to canvas (132 × 79 cm) c.1819-23
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
- Francisco Goya
- oil on canvas (74 × 68 cm) 1825-27
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

(L)  Self Portrait
- Francisco de Goya
- oil on canvas (46 × 36 cm) 1815
- National Gallery (London)

 

(R)  The Prado Museum

Source: Wikipedia