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- Reference number
- P00771
- Author
- Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (Spanish)
- Title
- The Maja and the Cloaked Men, or A Walk through Andalusia
- Chronology
- 1776
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 275 cm x 190 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- INVENTARIO TAPICES
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
This tapestry cartoon shows a Maja
meeting some cloaked men. The
composition's central theme of love
and jealousy is taken directly from
some of the etchings from Goya's
series of Caprichos, which he made
shortly thereafter.
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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