page_title: Black Paintings
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caption_attribution_description: Español: En la Exposición Universal de París, del año 1878, España participó en la muestra de arte retrospectivo del Palacio del Trocadero. Esta fotografía fue tomada aproximadamente en mayo de 1878, por la casa fotográfica de los Neurdein (una familia de fotógrafos franceses). La vista es del interior de un ala del Palacio del Trocadero, con la sección española. A la izquierda vemos la pintura "El Aquelarre", de Goya (que en 1875 se arrancó de los muros de la casa de la Quinta del Sordo, o Quinta de Goya, de Madrid), que era propiedad del barón de Erlanger (un banquero con residencia en París). La fotografía original es una copia en papel a la albúmina, del formato "tarjeta álbum", de la colección particular de C. Teixidor. Aquí se publica por primera vez. Además de 3 obras de Goya (a la izquierda), también vemos colgados grandes tapices, y fotografías enmarcadas de J. Laurent, en la antesala de los arcos (donde figura el nombre "Espagne"), que dan paso a las piezas de la Real Armería de Madrid, que viajaron temporalmente a París.Français&#160;: Exposition universelle de 1878. Palais du Trocadéro. Mai 1878. Photographiée par les Neurdein. Le Sabbat des sorcières a été exposée dans le Pavillon de l'Espagne. Le Sabbat des sorcières ou le Grand Bouc (d'après les multiples titres en espagnol El aquelarre, el Gran Cabrón) est l'une des peintures à l'huile sur plâtre de la série des Peintures noires avec lesquelles Francisco de Goya avait décoré les murs de sa maison Quinta del Sordo.
context_page_description: The Black Paintings is the name given to a group of fourteen paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-story house outside Madrid that was called Quinta del Sordo. 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 a fever he had suffered when he was 46. The paintings originally were painted as murals on the walls of the house, later being "hacked off" the walls and attached to canvas. They are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
  After the Napoleonic Wars and the internal turmoil of the changing Spanish government, Goya developed an embittered attitude toward mankind. He had a first-hand and acute awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. The combination of these factors is thought to have led to his production of the Black Paintings.
context_section_description: The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of fourteen paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity. 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). 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 a fever he had suffered when he was 46. The paintings originally were painted as murals on the walls of the house, later being "hacked off" the walls and attached to canvas. They are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
  After the Napoleonic Wars and the internal turmoil of the changing Spanish government, Goya developed an embittered attitude toward mankind. He had a first-hand and acute awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. The combination of these factors is thought to have led to his production of the Black Paintings. Using oil paints and working directly on the walls of his dining and sitting rooms, Goya created works with dark, disturbing themes. The paintings were not commissioned and were not meant to leave his home. 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."
  Goya did not give titles to the paintings, or if he did, he never revealed them. Most names used for them are designations employed by art historians. Initially, they were catalogued in 1828 by Goya’s friend, Antonio Brugada. The series is made up of fourteen paintings: Atropos (The Fates), Two Old Men, Two Old Men Eating Soup, Fight with Cudgels, Witches' Sabbath, Men Reading, Judith and Holofernes, A Pilgrimage to San Isidro, Women Laughing, Procession of the Holy Office, The Dog, Saturn Devouring His Son, La Leocadia, and Fantastic Vision.
caption: Exposition Universelle (1878). Paris. On the left: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat).
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