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European Painting and Sculpture
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Still Life with Golden Bream
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Francisco de Goya
Still Life with Golden Bream
1808—12
Oil on canvas
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Francisco de Goya painted only a dozen known still lifes, all them in the last decades of his life. Although the subject of this work is simple—a pile of dead fish—it expresses a moving pathos reminiscent of Goya´s etching series Disasters of War, one of the artist´s great achievements. Both the print series and Still Life with Golden Bream were completed during the terrible war between Spain and France, and both serve as meditations on death and violence.
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund and the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund
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