Friar Pedro Offers Shoes to El Maragato and Prepares to Push Aside His Gun
1806 Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
This small oil painting is part of a series created by Francisco Goya depicting the capture of the bandit El Maragato by Friar Pedro de Zaldivia. The work is currently housed in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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This painting belongs to a unique series of six small panels where Goya depicts the dramatic struggle between the notorious bandit El Maragato and the brave Friar Pedro. Goya was fascinated by this true story of a simple friar who single-handedly disarmed and captured the fearsome criminal, immortalizing the underdog's triumph in his characteristic, gritty narrative style.
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Friar Pedro Offers Shoes to El Maragato and Prepares to Push Aside His Gun
Francisco Goya, 1806
