Self Portrait With Dr. Arrieta and the Medical Profession’s Tenuous Status in the Public Eye

cientes (1746–1828) bridge the gulf in many ways, from the 18th-century Euro-pean masters to the early seeds of mod-ernism. In the wake of the revolution to the north and the Napoleonic Wars dur-ing his lifetime, tumultuous political and social upheavals in Spain impacted the artist, directly. Goya’s artistic opus transi-tioned from that of the celebrated chief court painter for King Charles IV (later shunned by his successor, Ferdinand VII) to his elderly personal works, fo-cused on common life scenes, popular events, and depictions of “capricious sub-jects ” (witches, ghosts, and monsters)