On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00803
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Boys Climbing a Tree
- Chronology
- 1791-1792
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 141 cm x 111 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Real Patrimonio, 1870
Three boys play together, trying to
climb a small tree. One of them
stands on another's back and is
helped by the third. The background
combines the landscape to the left
with a massive castle on the
right.
The painting was a cartoon for one
of the tapestries in Carlos IV's
office at El Escorial and bears the
characteristics of Goya's last
designs, especially in the use of
figures that stand out against lit
backgrounds that help to define
depth.
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