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.