Madrileños armed with knives attack the Mameluke cavalry of Napoleon's Imperial Guard near the Puerta del Sol, in a tangle of horses, turbans and blood. Goya painted it in 1814 with its companion, The Third of May, after the French had been driven out of Spain. There is no single hero or focal point, only chaos.
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At the centre a townsman drags a wounded Mameluke from his white horse. The canvas was badly torn in a truck accident in 1936 and restored again in 2007–08.
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