Artworks

El 3 de mayo en Madrid o "Los fusilamientos"

The Third of May, 1808

Artwork · No. 2 in El Dos de Mayo de 1808 en Madrid · Francisco Goya · 1814 · oil painting · Museo del Prado

Painted in 1814 with its companion, the Second of May, after the French had left Madrid: the execution of Madrilenians by French soldiers on the night after the uprising of 2 May 1808. The man in the white shirt, arms raised before the firing squad, became an image of the victims of war.