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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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