Prison Interior

1793–1794 painting by Francisco Goya

Prison Interior
Spanish: Interior de cárcel

Artist	Francisco Goya
Year	1793–1794
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	42.9 cm × 31.7 cm (16.9 in × 12.5 in)
Location	Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Prison Interior (Spanish: Interior de cárcel) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) between 1793 and 1794. The painting is bathed in a dim, cold light which gives it an appearance of purgatory.

It is one of a number of works the artist made of scenes set in lunatic asylums, including Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794) and The Madhouse (1812–1813).^[1] These works were painted at a time when mad-houses were "holes in the social surface, small dumps into which the psychotic could be thrown without the smallest attempt to discover, classify, or treat the nature of their illness."^[2] Goya often feared for his own sanity, a fact which underscores these works with feelings of dread.

Notes

^ Hughes, 140
^ Hughes, 139

Bibliography

Connell, Evan S. Francisco Goya: A Life. New York: Counterpoint, 2004. ISBN 1-58243-307-0
Hughes, Robert. Goya. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-394-58028-1

External links

Media related to Prison Interior (Goya) at Wikimedia Commons

Francisco Goya

List of works

Paintings

Paintings	Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga (c. 1763) The Holy Family with Saints Joachim and Anne (c. 1769) The Rape of Europa (1772) Christ Crucified (1780) The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783–84) The Greasy Pole (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–87) Paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna (1786–87) Saint Bernard of Clairvaux curing a cripple (1787) Yard with Lunatics (1793–94) Prison Interior (1793–94) Assault of Thieves (1793–94) The Duchess of Alba and la Beata (1795) Witches' Flight (1797–98) The Bewitched Man (1797–98) Witches' Sabbath (1798) La maja desnuda (c. 1797–1800) La maja vestida (1800–1805) Allegory of Industry (c. 1805) Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812) The Water Bearer (1808–1812) The Knifegrinder (1808–1812) Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks (1808–1812) The Colossus (after 1808) Truth, Time and History (1812–1814) The Madhouse (1812–1819) The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819) The Second of May 1808 (1814) The Third of May 1808 (1814) The Junta of the Philippines (1815) A Village Bullfight (1815–1819) The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816) A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816) The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time (1770–71) The Forge (c. 1817) Bullfight (1824)
Portraits	Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (or Red Boy) (c. 1788) La Tirana (1792) La Tirana (1794) Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana (1795) The White Duchess (1795) Portrait of Charles IV of Spain (c. 1795) The Black Duchess (1797) Bernardo de Iriarte (1797) Portrait of Ferdinand Guillemardet (1798–99) Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799) Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma The Countess of Chinchon (1800) Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–01) Portrait of Manuel Godoy (1801) Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–05) Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz (1805) Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1805) Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1810–11) Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812) Self-portrait at 69 years (1815) Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) Portrait of Don Ramón Satué (1823) The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827)
Frescoes	Adoration of the Name of God (1772) Frescoes in the Cartuja de Aula Dei (1774)
Tapestry cartoons (list)	The Boar Hunt (1775) The Parasol (c. 1777) Boys playing soldiers (1778–79) Children in a Chariot (1779) The Swing (1779) The Grape Harvest (1786) Summer (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–87) The Threshing Floor (1786–87) Blind Man's Bluff (1789) The Wedding (1791–92)
Black Paintings (c. 1819–1823)	Saturn Devouring His Son Judith and Holofernes Witches' Sabbath A Pilgrimage to San Isidro La Leocadia Two Old Men Men Reading Man Mocked by Two Women Fight with Cudgels Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro Atropos Asmodea Two Old Ones Eating Soup The Dog

Print series

Los Caprichos (1797–98)	And so was his grandfather The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Prisoners (1810–1815)
The Disasters of War (1810–1820)	This is worse (c. 1812–13)
La Tauromaquia (1815–16)	Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón
Los Disparates (1815–1823)	A way of flying (c. 1815–16)
The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824–25)