On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P02524
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Boys with Mastiffs
- Chronology
- 1786-1787
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 112 cm x 145 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
This cartoon for a tapestry
intended to hang over a door shows
two boys with two large muzzled
mastiffs. It is paired with Boy
riding a Ram, another over-door
tapestry cartoon, now at the Art
Institute of Chicago.
This work was conceived by Goya as
part of a series of tapestry
cartoons commissioned by the Royal
Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara
in 1786. The resulting tapestries,
based on the Four Seasons, were to
be hung in the Prince's dining room
at the El Pardo Palace. Due to the
death of King Carlos III
(1716-1788), they never reached
their original destination, and
were used instead to decorate
various rooms at the Monastary of
El Escorial, with no specific
order.
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