On-line gallery
- 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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