On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P02895
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- Shepherd playing a Dulzaina
- Chronology
- 1786-1787
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 130 cm x 134 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Real Patrimonio, 1870
A musician, traditionally
identified with a shepherd by his
clothing, leans back onto a hillock
in the landscape and plays his
dulzaina, a traditional Spanish
double-reed instrument.
Like its companion, Hunter by a
Spring (2896), this is a cartoon
for a tapestry in the Prince's
dining room at the El Pardo Palace.
Both were designed to hang above
windows, flanking the tapestry
representing Spring (P793).
The forced, low and upward-looking
perspective was supposed to give
the impression that the young man
was playing his dulzaina for the
viewers in a sort of trompe l'oeil
much favored by eighteenth-century
Venetian and Bolognese artists well
known to Goya since his trip to
Italy.
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