Three Men Carrying a Wounded Soldier, from the Images of Spain, Album F (1812/20): Artwork and History

Three Men Carrying a Wounded Soldier, from the Images of Spain, Album F (1812/20) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

Goya’s bold watercolor is very far from the emphasis on pure line of the restrained Classicism that characterizes many of the works from this period. Goya applied his washes with an abandon that verged on the abstract. Indeed, it can be difficult to separate the knot of individual figures, three of them carrying a fourth, in a scene that recalls images of the Deposition of Christ. Probably produced during the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleonic France (1808–14), Goya’s drawing unflinchingly treats the senseless violence and social chaos that defined the period.

Object facts

• Title: Three Men Carrying a Wounded Soldier, from the Images of Spain, Album F
• Date: 1812/20
• Artist attribution: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Spanish, 1746-1828
• Place of origin: Spain
• Medium: Brush with brown ink and brown and gray wash over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
• Dimensions: 20.2 × 14.1 cm (8 × 5 9/16 in.)
• Type: Drawing and Watercolor
• Department: Prints and Drawings
• Reference number: 1960.313

Collection credit

Clarence Buckingham Collection

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