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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Of What Ill Will he Die?

🖼 Of What Ill Will he Die?, 1799
Etching and aquatint
217 × 151 cm
Madrid, Spain

Rendered in shadowy browns and sickly yellows, an emaciated man lies dying while a doctor hovers uselessly nearby. The print brutally satirizes medical incompetence and mortality, reflecting Goya's darkening vision during Spain's turbulent late eighteenth century.

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E. H. Gombrich
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