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- Reference number
- P00751
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- A Dead Turkey
- Chronology
- 1808-1812
- Technique
- Óleo
- Support
- Lienzo
- Measures
- 45 cm x 62 cm
- School
- Española
- Theme
- Naturaleza muerta
- On display
- Yes
- Procedence
- Francisco de Goya, Madrid; Francisco Javier de Goya, después de 1812. Adquirido por Francisco Javier de Mariategui y Sola, ca.1838. Por herencia, a María de la Concepción de Mariategui, esposa de Mariano Goya, 1845. Vendido por Mariano Goya a Francisco Antonio Narváez y Bordese, conde de Yumuri, como pago de un préstamo, 1851. Por herencia a Francisco Antonio Narváez y Larrinaga, conde de Yumuri, 1866-1877. En la venta de la colección de M. le Comte de .. (conde Victor-François-Léonard Huyttens de Terbeck), Hôtel Drouot, París (sin vender), 25 y 26-V-1877. Manuel Vidal Ramón, Barcelona, 2-V-1879. Rafael García Palencia, Madrid, 27-XII-1898. Adquirido por el Ministerio de Fomento, con destino al Museo del Prado, en 20-III-1900.
This still life with a dead turkey and a wicker basket was one of a series of twelve still lifes belonging to Goya himself. They appear in the inventory of his property made after the death of his wife, Josefa Bayeu (1747-1812)
There are no known examples of earlier independent still lifes by Goya, although he included splendid details in works on other subjects.
The pictorial genre of still lifes, which greatly developed in Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was still considered a lesser genre in Goya's time.
This work was acquired by the Ministry of Development for the Prado Museum Collection in 1900.
