Fishermen loading their goods on a horse
1785. Oil on canvas.On display elsewhere
The artist executed this painting based on a sketch on canvas by Mariano Salvador Maella (1739-1819), which remains in the collection of National Heritage (PN-10042003).
This painting belongs to a collection of paperboard for the tapestries destined to decorate the rooms of the Princes of Asturias in the Palace of El Pardo in Madrid. A series of ten designs with seafaring themes were commissioned for the Ladies´ Piece in the Princess´s Room, this being one of them. The tapestry made from this paperboard is currently in the Room leading to the Chapel of the Palace of El Pardo.
Díez, José Luis (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2015, p.237