Only a dog's head shows above a dark, sloping mass, gazing up into a vast field of dirty ochre. Goya painted it straight onto a wall of his house outside Madrid, the Quinta del Sordo, as one of the Black Paintings he made for himself in his seventies and never titled. Whether the dog is sinking, hiding or waiting is left open.
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A faint dark shape hangs in the ochre above the dog, generally thought to be a trace of the earlier picture Goya painted over. The murals were moved to canvas in the 1870s.
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