Goya Museum

The Goya Museum (in French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France.^[1] The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya since it specialised in hispanic art from 1947.

The museum is located in the old Bishop's Palace, which was built in 1675 and is based on the design of Jules Hardouin Mansart, who was an architect of the Palace of Versailles.^[1] The gardens were designed by André Le Nôtre, who also worked at Versailles.

The museum holds 5000 pieces of art comprising 420 French paintings and a collection of 612 weapons.^[2] But it is mainly dedicated to Spanish art with the largest collection in France, including 200 paintings,^[3]^[4] against 166 in the Louvre,^[5]^[6] as well as 140 sculptures, coins from Antiquity to the 19th c. and nearly 1000 drawings and prints, like the complete four series of Goya (Caprichos, Disasters of War, Los Disparates and La Tauromaquia), the Gaudí serie by Joan Miró and 83 prints by Salvador Dalí.

Its paintings range from the 14th century to the present day, with Francisco Goya himself represented by three paintings given by the son of the painter Marcel Briguiboul in 1894, The Junta of the Philippines (c. 1815, Goya's largest work), Self-Portrait with Spectacles (in French) (c. 1800) and Portrait of Francisco del Mazo (in French) (c. 1815-1820). Other artists in the collection include Juan Rexach, Lluís Borrassà, Alejo Fernández, Francisco de Osona, Vicente Macip, Diego Velázquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Our Lady of the Rosary), José de Ribera, El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco Pacheco, Francisco Herrera el Viejo, Juan de Valdés Leal, Alonso Cano, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Francisco Ribalta, Sebastián de Llanos y Valdés, Claudio Coello, Pedro Orrente, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Varela, Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Gregorio Bausá, Francisco Bayeu y Subias, Luis Paret, Vicente Lopez y Portaña, José Aparicio, Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Aureliano de Beruete, Antonio de La Gándara, Joaquín Sorolla, Santiago Rusiñol, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Ignacio Zuloaga, Valentin Zubiaurre, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Josep Maria Sert, Maruja Mallo, Oscar Dominguez, Celso Lagar, Ismaël de la Serna, Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Antoni Clavé, Rafael Durancamps, Manolo Millares, Carlos Pradal and Mentor Blasco.

The completely refurbished museum reopened on 15 April 2023 with 23 rooms on 1500 m² and an exhibition hall in the contiguous former abbey of Les Cèdres.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Goya Museum Archived 2009-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Les amis des Musées de Castres.
^ Collection of the Goya Museum, site museegoya.fr.
^ Spanish paintings of the Goya Museum, site museegoya.fr.
^ Spanish paintings of the Goya Museum on the State database POP, site pop.culture.gouv.fr.
^ Spanish paintings of the Louvre Museum, site louvre.fr.
^ Spanish paintings of the Louvre Museum on the State database Joconde (now replaced by POP), site culture.gouv.fr.
^ Reopening of the Goya Museum, 18 April 2023, ladepeche.fr.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musée Goya.

Goya Museum — Castres, France, The Techno-Impressionist Journal: A year in the life…, 20 October 2006.

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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)