1793-94
Oil on tinplate, 50 x 32 cm
Banco Inversion-Agepasa, Madrid
The uncommissioned subjects which Goya painted during his convalescence included not only lunatics in a courtyard, but also fires, shipwrecks and highway robberies. His world was no longer as cheerful and bright as the one he had been required to portray in his tapestry cartoons.
