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Reference number
P00790
Author
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
Title
Boy with a Bird
Chronology
1779-1780
Technique
Support
Measures
262 cm x 40 cm
School
Theme
Shown
Yes
Entrance
INVENTARIO TAPICES
Procedence
Real Patrimonio, 1870

A young boy plays with a goldfinch he holds in his hands. The slender tree next to him helps to give the impression of verticality with which Goya constructs this everyday composition.

This cartoon was for one of the tapestries now in the Monastery of El Escorial. Its extremely vertical format shows that it, along with Boy and a Tree, was intended for a narrow area beside a door, or on a pier between windows.

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