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Reference number
P00789
Author
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
Title
Boy and a Tree
Chronology
1779-1780
Technique
Support
Measures
262 cm x 40 cm
School
Theme
Shown
Yes
Entrance
INVENTARIO TAPICES
Procedence
Real Patrimonio, 1870

Two boys play beside a tree. One hangs from a branch and the other has a basket. Apparently they are playing at catching birds.

This cartoon was for one of the tapestries now in the Monastery of El Escorial. Its size, similar to that of Boy with a Bird (P790), shows that it, too, was intended for a narrow area beside a door, or on a pier between windows.

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