La Leocadia

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La Leocadia is a haunting oil-on-plaster painting by Francisco Goya, depicting a mourning woman in dark attire and often interpreted as an allegorical or personal reflection on death and despair.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Black Painting
painting
alsoKnownAs Leocadia
Leocadia Zorrilla
artHistoricalContext late works of Francisco Goya
city Madrid
collection Museo Nacional del Prado collection
colorPalette dark tones
completionDate circa 1823
conservationAction transferred from wall to canvas in the 19th century
countryOfOrigin Spain
creator Francisco Goya
culturalSignificance key example of Goya’s Black Paintings
depicts funerary or tomb-like setting
mourning woman
woman dressed in dark clothing
genre allegorical painting
history of art – Romanticism
inception circa 1820
interpretation allegory of death
personal reflection on mortality
possible portrait of Leocadia Weiss
languageOfTitle Spanish
location Prado Museum
surface form: Museo del Prado
material oil paint
plaster ground
medium oil on plaster
movement Romanticism
originalLocation Quinta del Sordo
partOf interior decoration of Quinta del Sordo
periodInArtistCareer Goya’s late period
relatedWorkSeries Saturn Devouring His Son
The Dog (Black Painting)
Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)
surface form: Witches’ Sabbath (Black Painting)
series The Black Paintings
surface form: Black Paintings
style expressive brushwork
somber atmosphere
support wall plaster
surface transferred to canvas
theme death
despair
melancholy
mourning
title La Leocadia self-link
titleLanguage es

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Dos viejos comiendo sopa (Two Old Men Eating Soup) relatedWork La Leocadia
subject surface form: Dos viejos comiendo sopa
La Leocadia title La Leocadia self-link
Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) hasWorkPaintedOnWalls La Leocadia
subject surface form: Quinta del Sordo