![]() Heads in a landscape is, in all probability, the fifteenth Black Painting. However, in 1881 the baron donated the paintings to the Spanish state and they are now on display at the Museo del Prado. This work was carried out under the supervision of Salvador Martínez Cubells at the request of Baron Émile d’Erlanger, a French banker of German origins, who wanted to sell them at the Paris World's Fair in 1878. ![]() The walls of the villa had been covered in wallpaper and Goya had painted on top of this layer which was carefully removed and reapplied to canvas. The slow process of transferring the murals onto canvas began in 1874. Mariano de Goya transferred ownership of the villa to his father Javier de Goya in 1830. However, Nigel Glendinning assumes that the paintings "already adorned the walls of Quinta del Sordo when he bought it." Whatever the truth of the matter, the Black Paintings murals probably date from 1820 and were likely finished no later than 1823 when Goya, departing for Bordeaux, left the villa to his grandson Mariano, perhaps due to fear of reprisals after the fall of Rafael Riego and the republican army. Bozal has suggested that those paintings also were painted by Goya as this is the only way to understand why he reused them. If the light-toned bucolic paintings are also the works of Goya, it may be that his illness and the turbulent events of the Trienio Liberal led him to paint over them. What is known is that the murals were painted over rural scenes containing small figures, as Goya made use of the landscapes in some of his murals such as Fight with Cudgels. He may have started work on the murals between February and November 1819 when he fell seriously ill as testified by the disturbing Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820). It is not known exactly when Goya began painting the Black Paintings. It is thought that Goya had a relationship with her and possibly a daughter, Rosario. It has been suggested that he bought the house to escape public attention he lived there with his companion and maid Leocadia Weiss, even though she was still married to Isidoro Weiss. Goya acquired the Quinta del Sordo villa on the banks of the River Manzanares, near the Segovia bridge and with views over the plains of San Isidro, in February 1819. The series is made up of 14 paintings: Atropos (The Fates), Two Old Men, Two Old Ones Eating Soup, Fight with Cudgels, Witches' Sabbath, Men Reading, Judith and Holofernes, A Pilgrimage to San Isidro, Man Mocked by Two Women, Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro, The Dog, Saturn Devouring His Son, La Leocadia, and Asmodea.ĭiagram of the possible locations of the Black Paintings in La Quinta del Sordo ![]() Initially, they were catalogued in 1828 by Goya's friend, Antonio Brugada. Most names used for them are designations employed by art historians. Goya did not give titles to the paintings, or if he did, he never revealed them. It is likely that the artist never intended the works for public exhibition: "these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art." The paintings were not commissioned and were not meant to leave his home. Using oil paints and working directly on the walls of his dining and sitting rooms, Goya created works with dark, disturbing themes. The combination of these factors is thought to have led to his production of the Black Paintings. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. He had an acute, first-hand awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. Īfter the Napoleonic Wars and the internal turmoil of the changing Spanish government, Goya developed an embittered attitude toward mankind. They are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The paintings originally were painted as murals on the walls of the house, later being "hacked off" the walls and attached to canvas by owner Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger. Although the house had been named after the previous owner, who was deaf, Goya too was nearly deaf at the time as a result of an unknown illness he had suffered when he was 46. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-story house outside Madrid that was called Quinta del Sordo ( Deaf Man's Villa). ![]() They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 18. On the left: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)
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