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- Reference number
- P00768
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Picnic on the Banks of the Manzanares
- Chronology
- 1776
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 271 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 on
the banks of Madrid's Manzanares
River. The Hermitage of the Virgin
of the Port is just visible behind
a group of trees on the right.
Worthy of mention in this work are
the still life in the foreground
and the amorous play among the
orange-seller and the Majos.
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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