Fight with Cudgels

In 1819, Goya purchased a house on the banks of the Manzanares near Madrid named Quinta del Sordo ("Villa of the Deaf Man").

Between 1819 and 1823, when he moved to Bordeaux, Goya produced a series of 14 works, which he painted with oils directly onto the walls of the house.

By the end of 2010, another study of the Laurent images by Carlos Foradada, a painter and teacher of Art History, restated that Goya painted the duelists standing in high grass rather than knee-deep in mud.

[2] By the instructions of Athena, Cadmus sowed the dragon's teeth in the ground, from which there sprang a race of fierce armed men, called Spartoi ("sown").

By throwing a stone among them, Cadmus caused them to fall upon one another until only five survived, who assisted him in building the Cadmea (citadel) of Thebes.

Photograph by Jean Laurent , taken around 1874 before the transfer to canvas. Though the lower legs are obscured, Charles Yriarte , who viewed the paintings at the Quinta, interpreted that the duelists fought on a grass field, not knee-deep in mud. [ 1 ]