# Prison Interior

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***Prison Interior*** (Spanish: ***Interior de cárcel***) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the Spanish artist [Francisco Goya](/source/Francisco_Goya) (1746–1828) between 1793 and 1794. The painting is bathed in a dim, cold light which gives it an appearance of [purgatory](/source/Purgatory).

It is one of a number of works the artist made of scenes set in [lunatic asylums](/source/Lunatic_asylum), including *[Yard with Lunatics](/source/Yard_with_Lunatics)* (1793–1794) and *[The Madhouse](/source/The_Madhouse)* (1812–1813).[1] These works were painted at a time when mad-houses were "holes in the social surface, small dumps into which the psychotic could be thrown without the smallest attempt to discover, classify, or treat the nature of their illness."[2] Goya often feared for his own sanity, a fact which underscores these works with feelings of dread.

## See also

- [List of works by Francisco Goya](/source/List_of_works_by_Francisco_Goya)

## Notes

1. Hughes, 140

1. Hughes, 139

## Bibliography

- Connell, Evan S. *Francisco Goya: A Life*. New York: Counterpoint, 2004. ISBN 1-58243-307-0
- [Hughes, Robert](/source/Robert_Hughes_(critic)). *Goya*. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-394-58028-1

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