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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Mournful Foreboding of What is to Come

🖼 Mournful Foreboding of What is to Come, c. 1810
Etching
175 × 220 cm
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Murky shadows envelop two isolated figures frozen in anxious stillness, rendered through dark, agitated brushwork that conveys psychological dread. Goya's prophetic vision anticipated Spain's Peninsular War horrors, transforming personal anguish into a haunting meditation on fate and suffering.

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E. H. Gombrich
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