3711 x 5089 px | 31,4 x 43,1 cm | 12,4 x 17 inches | 300dpi
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The subject of the picture inspired by the Spanish insurrection against Napoleon's occupying force. The Spanish defiance of the French is a theme widely recorded in contemporary prose and poetry, partly as a result of the role played by the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War of 1808-14. The Defence of Saragossa is based on a specific incident when the French laid siege to the city from June to August 1808. The Spanish guerilla leader, Don Jose Rebolado Palafox y Melci (1775-1847), and the Augustinian friar, Father Consolacion, who together have aimed the gun on the French column at the Convent of Santa Engracia, near the Portillo Gate. Agostina Zaragoza, the wife of the gunner dying, seizes the lighted match and fires the gun at the encroaching forces.
