Francisco de Goya purchased the home on February 27, 1819 from a prior owner who was deaf. The house was initially composed of just two main rooms, each measuring 9 by 4.5 meters, and was decorated with rural motifs before Goya purchased it. Goya added a new wing for the kitchen. Several reasons have been suggested for Goya's purchase of the estate. Given Goya's liberalism, it would have been somewhat important to him to distance himself from the totalitarian court of
Fernando VII. After the fall of
Rafael del Riego in 1823, Goya felt it necessary to leave the country and move to Bordeaux. File:Casa de la Quinta de Goya, en la maqueta de 1828-1830 del Museo de Historia de Madrid.JPG|The Quinta de Goya, or Quinta del Sordo, in a scale model built between 1828 and 1830. Museum of History. Madrid File:Quinta del Sordo 1900.jpg|Mansion of the heirs of Goya, in the Quinta del Sordo, c. 1900. Magazine
La Ilustración Española y Americana on July 15, 1909 File:Madrid, detalle del palacete de los herederos de Goya, fototipia hacia el año 1907, la Quinta del Sordo.jpg|Mansion of the successors of Goya. Postcard, c. 1907 ==See also==