- Cronología
- Ca. 1806 - 1808
- Ubicación
- Marquis of La Romana Collection, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 40 x 32 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- Marquis of La Romana Collection
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 11 May 2010 / 15 Jun 2023
- Otros títulos:
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Bandit Stabbing a Woman (Bandido que apuñala a una mujer)
The complete series of eleven paintings was acquired from Goya by the Majorcan collector Juan de Salas, father of Dionisia Salas y Boxadors, who was married to Pedro Caro y Sureda (Palma de Mallorca, 1761-Cartaxo, Portugal, 1811), III Marquis of La Romana.
The painting was inherited by its current owners.
This work forms part of a set of three paintings within the series belonging to the Marquis of La Romana, which also includes Bandits Shooting their Prisoners and Bandit Stripping a Woman.
In the middle of a remote, rocky landscape, inside a cave perhaps, one of the bandits responsible for the attack on the coach in Bandits Shooting their Prisoners is about to finish off a woman with his knife. The man holds the wounded woman from behind as she lies on the ground. We can already see a trickle of blood coming from her body. She opens her mouth to cry out whilst the man concentrates all of his attention on finishing what he has started, displaying no mercy whatsoever.
The light is rendered using very thick strokes of greys and whites, whilst the figures display some more delicate brushwork. According to Manuela Mena and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, the fine black brushstrokes serve to pick out the outlines of the figures in the shadows, emphasizing the stomach and lower body of the man in particular. The two writers thus suggest a parallel between this work and one of the more violent images in the Caprices series of etchings: no. 8, They carried her off!.
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Goya 1900Ministerio de Instrucción Pública and Bellas ArtesMadrid1900consultant editors Aureliano de Beruete, Alejandro Ferrant, Marqués de Pidal and Ricardo Velázquez. May 1900cat. 58
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Pinturas de GoyaMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1928consultant editor Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor. From April to May 1928cat. 36
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Goya. El Capricho y la Invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1993from November 18th 1993 to February 15th 1994. Exhibited also at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 18th to June 12th 1994 and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 16th to October 16th 1994, consultant editors Manuela B. Mena Marqués and Juliet Wilson-Bareaucat. 78
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Goya: Prophet der ModerneAlte NationalgalerieBerlin2005from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marquéscat. 74
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Goya en tiempos de guerraMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid2008consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués, from April 14th to July 13th 2008cat. 52
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GoyaBasle2021p. 221
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L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 volsParís1928-1950p. 230, cat. 196
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 263, cat. 917
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, pp. 294 y 295, cat. 350
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974p. 122, cat., 490
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. III, p. 192
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Goya. Arte e condizione umanaNaplesLiguori editore1990pp. 150-151, il. XIII
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Goya. El capricho y la invención. Cuadros de gabinete, bocetos y miniaturasMadridMuseo del Prado1993pp. 276, 277, 278, y 281 (il.), cat. 78
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Goya en tiempos de guerraMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2008pp. 233 y 234, cat. 52