Bandit murders a woman (Goya)

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Bandido asesinando a una mujer (Francisco de Goya)
Bandido asesinando a una mujer
Francisco de Goya , around 1798/1800
Oil on canvas
41.5 x 31.8 cm
Marqués de la Romana Collection, Madrid

Bandido asesinando a una mujer or Bandido que apuñala a una mujer (German: Bandit murders a woman or Bandit stabs a woman ) is the title of a painting by Francisco de Goya that was created between 1798 and 1800 (according to another source from 1806 to 1808) . It was part of a series originally consisting of eleven pictures, known as Caprichos or Crimen de Castillo I y II , of which nine still exist today. Some of the images in this series relate to an actual case, the Castillo murder . Goya was friends with the judge Juan Meléndez Valdéz, who was handling the case. Goya also dealt with the not unusual attacks on travelers at the time. In this picture, Goya shows a crime in such a direct and extremely brutal way for the first time in art history. This makes this work unique in its depiction, according to research. Today it belongs to the collection of the Marquis de la Romana in Madrid.

Description and background

The painting measures 41.5 × 31.8 cm in portrait format. It is executed in the painting technique oil on canvas , in Goya's catalog raisonné it bears the number GW 917.

Provenance : The picture was initially in Palma with Juan de Salas, who acquired the series with the eleven pictures from Goya. Before 1811 he came to his son-in-law, General Pedro Caro y Sureda, third Marqués de la Romana. On May 13, 1870, it was sold to a T. Collection by the Paris auction house Hôtel Drouot . In 1900 it came back to the Marqués de la Romana and has been in the family ever since.

The series of pictures created by Goya can be divided into three groups. The two paintings Visit of the Monk ( Museo del Prado , Madrid) and Inside a Prison ( Bowes Museum , Barnard Castle ) have to do with the Castillo murder case, another group of paintings consists of the paintings Cueva de gitanos ( Robber's Cave ) and Fusilamiento en un campo militar ( shooting in a military camp ), both in the Marqués de la Romana collection, Madrid. The third group, to which this picture also belongs, shows scenes of violence in which the men are killed immediately after attacks on travelers, but the women are abducted, raped and finally also murdered. Three paintings in the sequence are as

Attack of the bandits

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Picture I. Image II Picture III

Asalto de bandidos I-III ( attack of the bandits ) and have a close relationship with each other, these are

  • Image I: Bandidos fusilando a sus prisioneros ("The bandits shoot their prisoners")
  • Image II: Bandido desnudando a una mujer ("A bandit undresses a woman")
  • Image III: Bandido asesinando a una mujer ("A bandit murders a woman")

When viewed together, the depicted scene takes place in a rocky landscape or a cave. While a group of bandits shoot some of the prisoners after attacking several people, another is undressing one of the women.

The painting Bandido asesinando a una mujer shows another bandit bending over a prisoner lying on the ground and stabbing her with a knife. To the right of her, blood is already clearly visible on the floor. The incidence of light from above on the scene is shown with thick brushstrokes in gray and white, the people, on the other hand, are sketched in more detail with soft strokes and their contours are reinforced by fine black lines.

In the two pictures with the undressed women, the contrast between male lust and violence and female beauty, fragility and eroticism is shown in a way that seems realistic and shocking for the viewer. Goya possibly used this to explain the lower instincts and sexual motivations that led to real rape and murder of women.

Exhibitions

  • 1900: Goya. Madrid
  • 1928: Pinturas de Goya. Museo del Prado, Madrid (April to May)
  • 1993/94: Goya. El capricho y la invención. Museo del Prado, Madrid (November 19 to February 15)
  • 2001/02: Goya - Images of Women. Museo del Prado, Madrid (October 30, 2001 to February 9, 2002) and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (March 10 to June 2)
  • 2005: Goya, prophet of modernity. Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin (July 13th to October 3rd)
  • 2008: Goya en tiempos de guerra. Museo del Prado Madrid (April 15 to July 13)

literature

  • Anna Reuter: The image of violence in Goya's work. In: European University Writings. Series XXVIII, Art History. Volume 407, P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52295-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bandido asesinando a una mujer on artehistoria.com
  2. ↑ María Dolores Antigüedad del Castillo: Goya y la de un nuevo modelo femenino génesis durante la Guerra de la Independencia. ( online, PDF, p. 16, footnote 12 ) ISSN  1696-4403
  3. ↑ Manuela B. Mena Marqués: Goya - Prophet of Modernity. DuMont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7561-X , p. 206.
  4. ↑ Bandido asesinando a una mujer on fundaciongoyaenaragon.es
  5. ↑ Eros en la pintura española del siglo XIX. on cervantesvirtual.com (PDF, p. 5, Spanish)
  6. ↑ 36: Bandido asesinando a una mujer. P. 38, online, PDF at museodelprado.es
  7. ^ Goya - Images of Women. on pubhist.com
  8. ^ Bernhard Schulz: All horrors of this world. on tagesspiegel.de
  9. ↑ Goya en los años de la guerra de la Independencia (1808–1814) on museodelprado.es