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The Third of May 1808
Francisco de Goya
The first modern painting of war, and a canvas damaged during its evacuation in the Spanish Civil War.
- Artist
- Francisco de Goya
- Date
- 1814
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 268 × 347 cm
- Location
- Museo del Prado, Madrid
History
What the record shows
Goya painted the executions on Príncipe Pío hill six years after the event, at the request of the provisional government.
Evacuated to Valencia and then Geneva in the 1930s, it was damaged in a truck accident en route — the reason the Prado now refuses to lend it.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Painted for the Spanish provisional government, 1814
- 02Royal collections, Madrid
- 03Museo del Prado from 1834
- 04Evacuated 1936–1939; damaged in transit
