Elements of this work could be earlier seen in the artist's print "And it cannot be helped." This work is paired with a Picasso painting in which some victims are replaced with pregnant women, Massacre in Korea. Besides including themes from the Disasters of War series, a companion to this piece shows a dead man sliding off his horse in the Charge of the Mamelukes. A box lantern is surrounded by a group of uniformed men facing the central figure, who has his arms raised in despair. For 10 points, this work showing a firing squad in Madrid, painted by Francisco Goya and titled for the date of that event.
Elements of this work could be earlier seen in the artist's print "And it cannot be helped." This work is paired with a Picasso painting in which some victims are replaced with pregnant women, Massacre in Korea. Besides including themes from the Disasters of War series, a companion to this piece shows a dead man sliding off his horse in the Charge of the Mamelukes. A box lantern is surrounded by a group of uniformed men facing the central figure, who has his arms raised in despair. For 10 points, this work showing a firing squad in Madrid, painted by Francisco Goya and titled for the date of that event.
Elements of this work could be earlier seen in the artist's print "And it cannot be helped.
The Third of May, 1808 [or El tres de mayo de mil ochocientas ocho en Madrid] 