Goya: Dashing Through The Snow
Jonathan Jones writes: This is actually one of Goya’s more lighthearted scenes. It is not one of the great Spanish artist’s nightmarish ‘black paintings’ of witches and savage gods but a design for a tapestry, done just after he became royal painter in 1786. But Goya is never merely decorative. Instead of a simple scene of fun in the snow, he proposes to decorate a palace with an acutely real and compassionate depiction of the poor toiling in bitter weather.
