On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00789
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Boy and a Tree
- Chronology
- 1779-1780
- Technique
- Óleo
- Support
- Lienzo
- Measures
- 262 cm x 40 cm
- School
- Española
- Theme
- Género y sociedad
- On display
- Yes
- Procedence
- Entregado a la Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara, Madrid, el 24 de enero de 1780. Transferido entre 1856-1857 al Palacio Real de Madrid (sótanos del oficio de tapicería). Ingresó en el Prado por RR.OO. de 18.1 y 9.2. de 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.
