01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont's Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French, with footnotes

Álvarez Dumont, Eugenio

Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French in one of the streets leading down from the park to San Bernardo. The Second of May 1808, c. 1887

Oil on canvas

Height: 365 cm; Width: 267 cm

Museo del Prado

The painting illustrates the moment when the guerrilla Juan Manuel Malasaña Pérez (1759–1808) kills the French dragoon who has just murdered his daughter, the embroiderer Manuela Malasaña Oñoro (1793– 1808), who was supplying her father with rifle cartridges to fight the French troops from her house during the assault on Monteleón Park. The scene takes place on the corner of the current Calle Daoíz and Calle San Bernardo, in front of the church of Montserrat. More on this painting

Eugenio Álvarez Dumont (1864, Tunis - 1927, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish painter; primarily of Orientalist and costumbrista scenes, although he is best remembered as a battle painter, for his scenes from the Peninsular War. 

He received his first artistic training at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, then at the Academia de España and the Accademia Chigi in Rome. He received an honorary mention there for one of his first sketches; The Death of Churruca.

In 1898, he travelled through North Africa with his brother, producing Orientalist scenes. Later, he moved to Paris then, finally to Madrid, where he dedicated himself to teaching, at the Escuela de Artes e Industrias, and painting costumbrista scenes. He was awarded medals at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1887 and 1892.

Toward the end of his life, he settled in Buenos Aires, where he did decorative paintings as well as canvases, and provided illustrations for Argentine books and magazines. More on Eugenio Álvarez Dumont

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