This cartoon for a tapestry intended to hang over a door shows two boys with two large muzzled mastiffs. It is paired with Boy riding a Ram, another over-door tapestry cartoon, now at the Art Institute of Chicago. This work was conceived by Goya as part of a series of tapestry cartoons commissioned by the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara in 1786. The resulting tapestries, based on the Four Seasons, were to be hung in the Prince´s dining room at the El Pardo Palace. Due to the death of King Carlos III (1716-1788), they never reached their original destination, and were used instead to decorate various rooms at the Monastary of El Escorial, with no specific order.