Fishermen and a Woman with a Basket full of Fish

1785. Oil on canvas.
On display elsewhere

This work was based on a sketch on canvas by Mariano Salvador Maella (1739–1819), also located in the Museo del Prado collections (P873). It is part of a set of cartoons for the tapestries intended to decorate the rooms of the Princes of Asturias in the Palace of El Pardo in Madrid. This is one of the ten designs with seafaring themes which were commissioned for the Ladies´ Piece in the Princess´s Bedroom. The tapestry made from this cardboard is currently located in the Cuartel General del Ejército, in Palacio de Buenavista in Madrid.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2015, p.237

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Mariano Salvador Maella

Inventory number: P006214
Author: Zacarías González Velázquez
Title: Fishermen and a Woman with a Basket full of Fish
Date: 1785
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 270 cm; Width: 180 cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist for Real Fábrica de Tapices; Museo de la Trinidad, 1870–1872.
Entry date: 1872

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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 5708 (Inv. cart. tapices).

Nuñez Vernis, Bertha, El pintor Zacarías González Velázquez (1763-1834), Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, 1996, pp. 476.

Campomanes y Su Tiempo, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid, 2003, pp. 287.

Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 237.

Orihuela, M. Pérez, L., El Prado Disperso: Obras depositadas en las embajadas de Berna, Estocolmo, La Haya, Londres, Moscú, Rabat, Viena y en el consulado de Tánger. La Haya, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXXIII, 2015, pp. 144-154 [146].