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- Reference number
- P00784
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- A Stickball Game
- Chronology
- 1779
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 261 cm x 470 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Real Patrimonio, 1870
This cartoon was for the main
tapestry in the bedroom of the
Prince and Princess of Asturias at
the El Pardo Palace. The
composition's setting —the
outskirts of Madrid— links the
subjects of the tapestries from the
bedroom's antechamber to those in
the bedroom itself.
The scene constitutes a
compositional tour de force in
which Goya proves his mastery of
perspective and the use of
painterly technique, of light and
color, to create space and
relations of proximity and distance
without the viewer ever noticing
the rigor and dryness of its
geometry.
In this painting, the artist
reveals his knowledge of the great
Italian artists from both the
Renaissance and the Baroque.
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