"[Goya is] in absolute penury [and wants] assistance [of public funds], to perpetuate with his brush the most notable and heroic actions or scenes of our glorious insurrection against the tyrant of Europe [= France]."
— Francisco Goya

January 1, 1970

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probably Goya planned this project, needed as to confirm so his loyalty to the returning Spanish king Fernando who was in exile because of the French occupation. The possible reason? Goya painted during the war-years the portraits of some members of the French king's circles in Madrid, then – the worse enemy of Spain then. In May 1814 an investigation to collaborating court personnel had launched