La Leocadia
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La Leocadia (Spanish: Doña Leocadia) or The Seductress (Spanish: Una Manola)[1] are names given to a mural by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed sometime between 1819–1823, as one of his series of 14 Black Paintings. It shows a woman commonly identified as Goya's maid, companion and (most likely) lover, Leocadia Weiss. She is dressed in a dark, almost funeral maja dress, and leans against what is either a mantelpiece or burial mound, as she looks outward at the viewer with a sorrowful expression. Leocadia is one of the final of the Black Paintings, which he painted in his seventies at a time when he was consumed by political, physical and psychological turmoil, after he fled to the country from his position as court painter in Madrid.
La Leocadia | |
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Spanish: Una manola: doña Leocadia Zorrilla | |
Artist | Francisco Goya |
Year | c. 1819–1823 |
Medium | Oil mural transferred to canvas |
Dimensions | 145.7 cm × 129.4 cm (57.4 in × 50.9 in) |
Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
According to the c. 1828–1830 inventory of his friend Antonio Brugada, Leocadia was situated in the ground floor of Quinta del Sordo, Goya's villa[2] which Lawrence Gowing observes was thematically divided: a male side of Saturn Devouring His Son and A Pilgrimage to San Isidro; and a female side compromising Judith and Holofernes, Witches' Sabbath, and Leocadia.[3][4] All the works in the series were transferred to canvas after Goya's death and are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.