Death Anniversary: Francisco Goya — April 16, 1828

Francisco Goya died in exile in Bordeaux on 16 April 1828. The paintings he made for no one but himself in his last years in Spain, the so-called Black Paintings, once covered the walls of his own house outside Madrid; taken down and moved onto canvas after his death, they now hang in the Museo del Prado alongside the Third of May 1808 and the rest of a life’s work that runs from court portraits to nightmares.