Discover reproductions of drawings that Goya made in Bordeaux on various subjects, from his voluntary exile to his death.

In 1824, with the return of absolutism in Spain, the painter Francisco de Goya left his country and moved to Bordeaux at the age of 78, for a voluntary exile that lasted four years until his death in Bordeaux on April 16, 1828. During his four years in Bordeaux, Goya continued to work tirelessly, learning a new printing technique, lithography. Upon his arrival, he drew a picture of an old man in a dramatic attitude, a bearded man walking with canes entitled J'apprends encore. In memory of his stay in Bordeaux, one can see on the facade of the Instituto Cervantes in Bordeaux, where he lived the last days of his life, a medallion with the face of Goya made by the sculptor Mariano Benlliure. In the courtyard of the first floor is the plaque offered by the painter Ignacio Zuloaga, reminding that Goya was born in Fuendetodos and died in Bordeaux. The exhibition begins in the courtyard of the first floor with a first part composed of reproductions and documents of Los Nuevos Caprichos that he made in this city, and it continues on the second floor. On the third floor in the Goya Room, are presented a series dedicated to The Bulls of Bordeaux, a series of portraits of his Bordeaux friends as well as documents relating to his life in this city and a reproduction of the famous painting made in the last year of his life, La Laitière de Bordeaux. These drawings of Bordeaux reveal an original Goya, with tireless curiosity, adapting to all circumstances, sometimes cheerful and spontaneous, as it has never been, sometimes melancholic or even desperate. Never has Goya given as much as in his drawings made in Bordeaux the last four years of his life. He passed away during the night of April 15 to 16, 1828, in his apartment on the 3rd floor of this building located at 57 cours de l'Intendance in Bordeaux, now the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes.