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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Art Prints

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

5 museum-quality prints of works by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Francisco Goya (1746–1828) served as First Court Painter to the Spanish crown, but alongside his official portraits he made small, rapid pictures of Spanish life — bandits, superstitions, popular tales — for his own pleasure or a few discerning patrons. The Friar Pedro and El Maragato panels (c. 1806) belong to this private production: they narrate, scene by scene like a broadsheet, a sensational event of the summer of 1806, when the escaped bandit El Maragato took a household hostage and was overpowered by Pedro de Zaldivia, a lay Franciscan brother who seized his gun and shot him in the thigh as he fled.

The story swept Spain in newspapers, ballads, and prints; Goya’s panels, painted in broad, quick strokes stripped of inessential detail, were still in his possession in an 1812 inventory. The Hanged Monk (c. 1810) shares the dark register of his work during the war years that produced The Disasters of War.