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The Dog is the name usually given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya now in the Museo del Prado Madrid. It shows the head of a small black dog gazing upwards. The dog itself is almost lost in the vastness of the rest of the image which is empty except for a dark sloping area near the bottom of the picture: an unidentifiable mass which conceals the animal’s body. The Dog is one of the Black Paintings Goya painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823.
