Ficha de arte Asalto de ladrones (Goya).

Assault of thieves is an oil on tin, by Francisco de Goya painted in 1793 - 1794 in a small format (42 x 31 cm), coinciding with a serious illness of the painter. In the paint, the robbers assault a diligence and you can see several corpses lying on the ground.

The bandits were at the order of the day in Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with some legendary as Luis Candelas. Goya had already addressed this issue for the Duchess of Osuna (Assault the car) going back to him in the series of oil paintings on tin conducted between 1792 and 1793, during convalescence from the illness that left him deaf.