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Francisco Goya / Fight with Cudgels

Fight with Cudgels

1820 · Oil on canvas

MovementRRomanticism
LocationMadrid, Spain
Genregenre art
Dimensions125 × 261 cm

Why it matters

Two men fight with cudgels, seemingly trapped knee-deep in mud or sand. It is one of the Black Paintings Goya painted directly on the walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo.

Did you know?

  • It was painted between 1820 and 1823.
  • Old inventories call it The Strangers or Cowherds.
  • Goya gave the Black Paintings no titles.

Based on the Wikipedia article Fight with Cudgels (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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