Editing Francisco Goya (section)

==Bordeaux (October 1824 – 1828)==
[[File:Goya MilkMaid.jpg|thumb|220px|''[[The Milkmaid of Bordeaux]]'', 1825–27, is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss.<ref name="H402">Hughes (2004), 402</ref>]]

[[Leocadia Zorrilla|Leocadia Weiss]] (née Zorrilla, 1790–1856),<ref>Junquera, 13</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Stevenson |first1=Ian |author-link1=Ian Stevenson |title=[[European Cases of the Reincarnation Type]] |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn=9781476601151 |pages=243–244 |edition=2015}}</ref> the artist's maid, younger by 35 years, and a distant relative,<ref>Gassier, 103</ref> lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu's death. She stayed with him in his [[Black paintings|Quinta del Sordo]] villa until 1824 with her daughter [[Rosario Weiss Zorrilla|Rosario]].<ref name="BU79">Buchholz, 79</ref> Leocadia was probably similar in features to Goya's first wife Josefa Bayeu, to the point that one of his well-known portraits bears the cautious title of ''Josefa Bayeu (or Leocadia Weiss)''.<ref>Connell (2004), 28</ref>

Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament. She was likely related to the Goicoechea family, a wealthy dynasty into which the artist's son, Javier, had married. It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweler, Isidore Weiss, but was separated from him since 1811, after he had accused her of "illicit conduct". She had two children before that time, and bore a third, Rosario, in 1814 when she was 26. Isidore was not the father, and it has often been speculated—although with little firm evidence—that the child belonged to Goya.<ref>Hughes (2004), 372</ref> There has been much speculation that Goya and Weiss were romantically linked; however, it is more likely the affection between them was sentimental.<ref>Junquera, 68</ref>

Goya died on 16 April 1828.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Chilvers, Ian |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198604761.001.0001/acref-9780198604761-e-1492?rskey=EwcJkJ&result=7 |title=Goya, Francisco de |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Art |date = January 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn = 978-0-19-860476-1|edition=2014 online |access-date=15 April 2019 }}</ref> Leocadia was left nothing in Goya's will; mistresses were often omitted in such circumstances, but it is also likely that he did not want to dwell on his mortality by thinking about or revising his will. She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then were old men or had died, and did not reply. Largely destitute, she moved into rented accommodation, later passing on her copy of the ''[[Los caprichos|Caprichos]]'' for free.<ref>Connell (2004), 235</ref>

Goya's body was later re-interred in the [[Royal Chapel of St. Anthony of La Florida|Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida]] in Madrid. Goya's skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyj5PK-15UwC&q=with+or+without+head+fuentes+goya&pg=PA230|title= The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. London |last=Carlos |first=Fuentes|date=1992|publisher=Andre Deutsch Ltd |isbn=978-02339-79953 |page=230}}</ref>