# Goya's most famous paintings

The works by Francisco de Goya chosen by experts and art guides: from the tapestry cartoons to the Black Paintings.

- 89 votes · 17 items
- Sep 15, 2025 · medalloversionoriginal
- https://even.best/en/l/2304/goya-s-most-famous-paintings

## Top 17

1. **The Family of Charles IV** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1800. The whole court, painted without flattery.
2. **The Nude Maja** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Before 1800. A nude that brought him before the Inquisition.
3. **Saturn Devouring His Son** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1819-1823. The most terrifying of the Black Paintings.
4. **The Dog** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1819-1823. A dog's head and a great emptiness.
5. **The Clothed Maja** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — c. 1800-1807. The same woman, clothed.
6. **The Duchess of Alba (in White)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1795. The duchess points at the painter's signature on the ground.
7. **The Second of May 1808 (The Charge of the Mamelukes)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1814. The uprising in the Puerta del Sol.
8. **The Family of the Infante Don Luis** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1783-1784. His first great composition as a portraitist.
9. **The Parasol** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1777. A tapestry cartoon, bright and cheerful.
10. **The Milkmaid of Bordeaux** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — c. 1827. Painted in exile, it foreshadows Impressionism.
11. **The Third of May 1808** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — 1814. The executions on Príncipe Pío hill. Prado Museum.
12. **The Countess of Chinchón** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1800. One of his most delicate portraits.
13. **The Meadow of San Isidro** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1788. Madrid celebrating by the Manzanares river.
14. **Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1819-1823. Witches gathered round the he-goat.
15. **Fight with Cudgels** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1819-1823. Two men sunk to their knees fight with clubs.
16. **The Straw Manikin** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1791-1792. Four women toss a straw doll in a blanket.
17. **The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1799. The most famous print in Los Caprichos.

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