# Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter

Date: 1814

## The fact

The 1814 purification/justification is the dated loyalty-file instrument. [Francisco Goya](/people/francisco-goya)’s documented role is: He submitted a justification of conduct. The king’s purge machine is the state’s. Shared. The 1814 court-painter cost row remains; this stores the purification paper. Do not merge with the 2nd/3rd of May canvases as a rebate. Paper versus painting. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Francisco Goya's documented role is: He submitted a justification of conduct. The king’s purge machine is the state’s. Shared. The 1814 court-painter cost row remains; this stores the purification paper.

## Context

Madrid after Ferdinand’s return. Joseph Bonaparte service sits on another row. Named others on the file: Fernando VII’s officers; unnamed fellow painters in the same inquest weather. The public setting is the file around 1814-05-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter. The setting of Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter is the public file around 1814-05-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter. Naming Francisco Goya does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1814-05-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Prado independently place Goya under restored-Bourbon scrutiny while still in court employ. Official: Britannica — Francisco Goya (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Museo del Prado — Francisco de Goya (https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/artist/goya-y-lucientes-francisco-de/b88be641-2f87-4439-bc6b-4db4a2d62447; Museo Nacional del Prado). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Francisco Goya (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Museo del Prado — Francisco de Goya (https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/artist/goya-y-lucientes-francisco-de/b88be641-2f87-4439-bc6b-4db4a2d62447; Museo Nacional del Prado).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Francisco Goya (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Loyalty inquest. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A political loyalty inquest over a public artist is a polarisation path. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Medium confidence on the surviving paper’s exact wording. Established: a sourced public record of Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter under 1814-05-01. Established: a sourced public record of Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter under 1814-05-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with the 2nd/3rd of May canvases as a rebate. Paper versus painting. Mixed effects of Restored Fernando VII’s purification of office-holders puts Goya through a loyalty file while he remains court painter are separate paths.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Francisco Goya: https://factrail.ai/people/francisco-goya

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/artist/goya-y-lucientes-francisco-de/b88be641-2f87-4439-bc6b-4db4a2d62447
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Goya

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goy-purification-1814