Bocce ball game

Ca. 1786. Oil on canvas.
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This tapestry card depicts the game of boccie balls described in the Diccionario de Autoridades of 1726 as follows: ‘A game played between two or more people with medium-sized balls and a smaller one, which is rolled at a certain distance. The other balls are thrown towards the small one, and, the one who gets closest to it with his ball wins the game. This is a Tuscan term that has been introduced in modern times’. The composition is included in Francisco Bayeu´s Thirteen Sketches for Tapestry Cartoons (P002599).

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Thirteen Sketches for Tapestry Cartoons

Oil on canvas, Ca. 1786

Francisco Bayeu

Inventory number: P005543
Author: Ramón Bayeu y Subías
Title: Bocce ball game
Date: Ca. 1786
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Width: 441.99997 cm; Height: 289 cm
Provenance: Real Patrimonio, 1870
Entry date: 1870

Bibliography +

Held, Jutta, Die Genrebilder der Madrider Teppichmanufaktur und die Anfänge Goyas, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlín, 1971, pp. nº 121 / lám. 42 y 171.

Espinós, Adela; Orihuela, Mercedes y Royo Villanova, Mercedes, El "Prado disperso". Cuadros depositados en Madrid. V, Boletín del Museo del Prado, II, 1981, pp. 127.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: inventario general de pinturas. Nuevas Adquisiciones. Museo Iconográfico. Tapices, III, Museo del Prado, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1996, pp. Nº 5799 (Inv. cart. tapices).

Díez, José Luis, Cánovas y la Restauración, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Madrid, 1997.

Albarrán, V., 'Divertimentos. Engaños', en: Mena Marqués, Manuela B. y Maurer, Gudrun, Goya en Madrid: cartones para tapices 1775-1794, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2014, pp. 116-125 [116 f.2.29].

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Inv. Cartones para Tapices. Núm. 5799.
Un juego de bolos

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Tira que se quita al cuadro nº 5799 de Bayeu, destinado al Ministerio de Instrucció Pública y Bellas Artes, 22-III-33
Inscribed in pen and ink. Back