Queen Joan the Mad on the Ramparts of the Castle of La Mota
1876. Oil on canvas.Not on display
This small, sketchily painted canvas depicts one of the scenes that Pradilla rejected for his celebrated painting of Joan the Mad (P04584). It narrates an episode from the life of the Queen of Castile when, frustrated by the failure of her journey to Flanders to join her husband, she leant out over the ramparts of the famous castle to the alarm of her attendants