Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Íñigo

Goya's Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Íñigo from around 1760 is an early religious work predating his full maturity, executed when he was still a young painter working in the tradition of late Baroque Spanish religious art. Saint Íñigo (Eneko) of Oña was an eleventh-century Castilian abbot, and the combination of his veneration with the Assumption suggests a commission for a Spanish monastery or collegiate church. Goya's early religious works show his absorption of the Italian and Spanish Baroque tradition before his personal style developed fully in the 1780s and 1790s.

The composition would deploy the standard vertical organization of Assumption imagery — the Virgin rising amid clouds and angels above the apostles gathered below, with Saint Íñigo included as a secondary devotional presence. Goya's early handling shows the influence of his teacher Bayeu and the Spanish Baroque tradition.