Back لا ليوكاديا ARZ Una manola: doña Leocadia Zorrilla Spanish Une manola : Léocadie Zorrilla French Դոնյա Լեոկադիա Սորիլիա (նկար) Armenian レオカディア (ゴヤ) Japanese Leokadia Zorrilla, służąca artysty Polish Донья Леокадия Соррилья Russian
| La Leocadia | |
|---|---|
| Spanish: Una manola: doña Leocadia Zorrilla | |
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| Artist | Francisco Goya |
| Year | c. 1819–1823 |
| Medium | Oil mural transferred to canvas |
| Dimensions | 145.7 cm × 129.4 cm (57.4 in × 50.9 in) |
| Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
La Leocadia (Spanish: Doña Leocadia) or The Seductress (Spanish: Una Manola)[1] are names given to a mural by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed sometime between 1819–1823, as one of his series of 14 Black Paintings. It shows Leocadia Weiss, his maid and likely his lover. She is dressed in a dark, almost funeral maja dress and leans against what is either a mantelpiece or burial mound as she looks outward at the viewer with a sorrowful expression.
La Leocadia was one of the final of the Black Paintings to be completed, a series that he painted, in his seventies at a time when he was consumed by political, physical and psychological turmoil after he fled to the country from his position as court painter in Madrid.
According to the c. 1828–1830 inventory of his friend Antonio Brugada, Leocadia was situated in the ground floor of Quinta del Sordo, Goya's villa[2] which Lawrence Gowing observes was thematically divided: a male side of Saturn Devouring His Son and A Pilgrimage to San Isidro; and a female side compromising Judith and Holofernes, Witches' Sabbath, and Leocadia.[3][4] All the works in the series were transferred to canvas after Goya's death and are now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
- ^ Havard (2007), p. 66
- ^ Junquera (2008), pp. 33, 42
- ^ Junquera (2008), p. 60
- ^ The male/female counterpoint can be further seen between individual works in the series, most especially between Men Reading and Man Mocked by Two Women. See Licht (1979) p. 167