A giant, veiled figure causes a group of soldiers to flee in terror. However, what they take to be a personifcation of death, does in reality seem to be no more than a kind of scarecrow. A grinning grotesque face peers out from one of the sleeves. Here, as in similar depictions (Capricho no. 3 and Disparate no. 19), Goya targets groundless fears allowing people to be manipulated as pawns. (TD 2024, translation Büro LS Anderson, Berlin)
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