Yard with Lunatics
Yard with Lunatics (Spanish: Corral de locos) is a small oil-on-tinplate painting completed by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya between 1793 and 1794. Goya said that the painting was informed by scenes of institutions he had witnessed as a youth in Zaragoza.[1]
Yard with Lunatics
c. 1794
oil-on-tinplate
32.7 cm × 43.8 cm (12.9 in × 17.2 in)
It was painted around the time when Goya’s deafness and fear of mental illness were developing, and he was increasingly complaining about his health. A contemporary diagnosis read, "the noises in his head and deafness aren’t improving, yet his vision is much better and he is back in control of his balance."
