The Dog (Goya)

The Dog is the name usually given to a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, held today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It shows only the head of a dog gazing upward, nearly lost in a large empty expanse of color above a dark sloping mass that conceals the rest of its body. The painting is one of Goya's Black Paintings, a group he painted directly onto the walls of his own house between about 1819 and 1823, in his mid-seventies and suffering acute mental and physical distress; he never intended them for public exhibition, and they remained on the walls of the house for fifty years after he left it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/