On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P00753
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Dogs on the leash
- Chronology
- 1775
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 112 cm x 174 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- DONACION
- Procedence
- Donation by Raimundo de Madrazo, 1894
A tapestry cartoon with two chained
dogs, two shotguns, a powder horn,
and other hunting implements on a
small hill, with a landscape in the
background.
The resulting tapestry was intended
to hang over one of the doors of
the dining room of the Prince and
Princess of Asturias (the future
Carlos IV and his wife, Maria Luis
de Parma) at the Monastery of El
Escorial. It's intended location
explains the elongated format. This
series was Goya's first important
commission for the Royal Tapestry
Factory of Santa Bárbara. The
overall subject, hunting, was in
keeping with the use the Monarchs
made of that Royal Seat.
This work disappeared from Madrid's
Royal Palace in 1869, along with
two other cartoons, and was donated
to the Prado Museum in 1895 by
Raimundo de Madrazo.
