Friar Pedro Wrests the Gun from El Maragato
1806 Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
This painting is part of a series of six small oil panels depicting the legend of the bandit El Maragato and his capture by Friar Pedro de Zaldivia. It focuses on the climactic struggle where the monk disarms the outlaw.
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This work belongs to a series that captures a real-life legendary encounter between a notorious bandit, El Maragato, and a brave Franciscan friar. Goya's sequence of paintings functions like an early storyboard, capturing the intense physical struggle and the eventual capture of the criminal in a cinematic, narrative style.
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Friar Pedro Wrests the Gun from El Maragato
Francisco Goya, 1806
