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- Reference number
- P00751
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- A Dead Turkey
- Chronology
- 1808-1812
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 45 cm x 63 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COMPRA
- Procedence
- Acquisition, 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.
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