Revolution and Nightmare

Goya, Witness

Francisco de Goya, 1799–1823

Court painter to the Spanish crown, Goya lived through Napoleon's invasion of Spain and the brutal war that followed. His work moved from royal portraits to prints and private murals that face cruelty, fear and illness head on.

• A state portrait at the court of Charles IV
• Etched series on folly, war and its civilian cost
• Late works made for himself and a friend

Works in this part

• The Family of Charles IV
• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos)
• The Second of May 1808
• The Third of May 1808
• And There Is Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio)
• I Saw It (Yo lo vi)
• Saturn Devouring His Son
• Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)