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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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