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- Reference number
- P00743
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Majo with Guitar
- Chronology
- 1779
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 137 cm x 112 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- DONACION
- Procedence
- Donation by Raimundo de Madrazo, 1894
This is a cartoon for a tapestry to
be hung over a window, with the
figure of a Majo playing the guitar
and a background of landscape with
three other people. The resulting
tapestry was intended for the entry
to the bedroom of the Prince and
Princess of Asturias (the future
Carlos IV and his wife, Maria Luisa
de Parma) at the El Pardo Palace in
Madrid.
Goya's activity as a painter of
tapestry cartoons was very
fruitful, with an outstanding
wealth of compositional inventions
and the study of different types of
characters. These works constitute
an important personal analysis of
the society of his time and have
been considered direct precedents
of his later works, where his
mordacity became a characteristic
of his production, especially in
los Caprichos.
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