Another, for the church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, where his brother-in-law Manuel Bayeu was a monk,[1] was a series on the Life of the Virgin up to the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple,[2] which he completed in 1774.

Of the original eleven paintings there now remain only seven, as a result of damage consequent upon the abandonment of the monastery during the Desamortizacion, or dispossession of the church, by Juan Álvarez Mendizábal in 1835–37.

The series consists of scenes from the life of the Virgin arranged in a frieze round the walls of the monastic church.

The series begins with Joachim and Anne (Mary's parents) located above the main doors, and thereafter alternate between scenes from the Gospels and from the Epistles.

There follow the Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, the Circumcision, the Adoration of the Magi and finally, of what remains from Goya's original works, the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.