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Reference number
P00769
Author
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
Title
Picnic on the Banks of the Manzanares
Chronology
1777
Technique
Support
Measures
272 cm x 295 cm
School
Theme
Shown
Yes
Entrance
INVENTARIO TAPICES
Procedence
Royal Collection

This tapestry cartoon represents a popular scene of Majos and Majas dancing Seguidillas on the banks of Madrid's Manzanares River. In the background, Goya painted the area around the Pontones Bridge, near “la Quinta del Sordo,” the land and house he bought in 1819.

The resultant tapestry was intended to hang in the dining room of the Prince and Princess of Asturias (the future Carlos IV and his wife Maria Luisa de Parma) at the Monastery of El Escorial. This work was part of a decorative series of ten cartoons for tapestries on “countryside” subjects. Goya, himself, invented the specific composition of the present one.

This work entered the Prado Museum Collection in 1870 by way of Madrid's Royal Palace.

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