# The Black Paintings remain private mural-oil in the Quinta del Sordo during Goya’s life Date: 1823 ## The fact By 1823 the Black Paintings existed as mural-oil in [Goya](/people/francisco-goya)’s Quinta del Sordo, not as a public museum cycle. This Fact stores that private-house limit, not the later Prado transfer. It is one event. ## Context Separate making from later public hanging. A private mural can be a laboratory and a closed file. Francisco Goya’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Painted c. 1819–1823 on house walls; transferred to canvas later (1870s) and then to the Prado. In his life they were a private house, not a public cycle. Delayed access is the harm; later Prado is the sibling door. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row. ## Evidence and sources Prado Black Paintings history and Britannica independently describe house origin and later transfer. Official or archival record: Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/en; Museo Nacional del Prado). ## Significance Keeping a major cycle on private walls is an education-access limit in his lifetime. 1823 house is not 1870s canvas transfer. Keeping a major cycle on private walls is an education-access limit in his lifetime. ## What is established and what is not Established: Black Paintings as house murals c. 1819–23. Not established: that 1823 already had a Prado room. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Francisco Goya. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes. They are not a public rating. ## People - Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya - https://www.museodelprado.es/en ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-black-private