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File:Courtyard with Lunatics by Goya 1794.jpg

Summary

Artist
Title Spanish: Corral de Locos
‚Courtyard with Lunatics‘ or ‚Yard with Madmen‘
Description
English: In one of his letters, Goya describes the painting: "a yard with lunatics, in which two nude men fight with their warden beating them... [it is a scene I saw in Zaragoza]."
Español: Corral de Locos, Francisco de Goya 1794
Date 1794
Medium Oil on tin plated iron
Dimensions 43.8 × 32.7 cm (17.2 × 12.9 in)
Accession number 67.01
Credit line Algur H. Meadows Collection,
References
Source/Photographer The Meadows Museum's Permanent Collection, accessed 2010-03-20.

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