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- Reference number
- P00772
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- The Drinker
- Chronology
- 1776
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 107 cm x 151 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
This tapestry cartoon depicts five
people. The young man in the
foreground is drinking from a
wineskin while his companion eats a
chive or tender onion. This work's
format and bottom-to-top
perspective indicates that it was
intended to hang over a
window.
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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