• The Forge (Spanish: La fragua) is a c. 1817 painting by Francisco Goya (1746–1828), today housed in the Frick Collection in New York City.
  • Completed sometime around 1817, The Forge is a large, oil on canvas painting, measuring a fraction over 71 by 49 inches
  • The background is dark-themed, and nothing much is going on. Since The Forge painting was not commissioned from Goya, it was never sold.
  • Francisco De Goya y Lucientes The Forge Oil Painting Reproduction.
  • Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and...
  • Goya’s c. 1817 painting, The Forge, is currently housed in the Frick Collection in New York City and is one of his most famous works.
  • In composition, the work evokes the traditional depictions of the forge of Vulcan, here updated to the gritty reality of modern industrial Europe.
  • The Forge” is an oil on canvas painting by Francisco Goya, created approximately between 1812 and 1816.
  • As a subject The Forge is distantly related to The Injured Mason and similar in character to the small Water-carrier and Knife-grinder (Szepmuveszeti Museum...