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GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de: Robbery

🖼 Robbery, c. 1794
Oil on canvas
69 × 107.5 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Violent chaos erupts as masked bandits ambush travelers on a dark road, their forms rendered in dramatic shadow and urgent brushwork. Goya captures brutal crime with unflinching realism, departing from aristocratic tradition to depict society's violent underbelly during Spain's turbulent late eighteenth century.

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