The Carnation Seller

Ca. 1786. Oil on canvas.
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Scenes of street vendors proliferated in eighteenth-century Spain, as they had in France, England and Italy, both because of the picturesque nature of their street cries and their apparel, and because they were regarded from then on as a true reflection of national identity. Here, however, Bayeu gives his carnation seller a curiously melancholy air, hitherto unexplained.

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Francisco Bayeu

Inventory number: P007181
Author: Francisco Bayeu
Title: The Carnation Seller
Date: Ca. 1786
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 334 cm; Width: 119 cm
Provenance: Royal Collection (Real Patrimonio), 1870
Entry date: 1870

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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. nº5640(Inv.Cartones Tapices).

Permanencia de la memoria: cartones para tapiz y dibujos, Gobierno de Aragón, Departamento de Educación y Cultura, Zaragoza, 1997, pp. 95.

Mena Marqués, M.B, 'Las clases sociales. Vendedores ambulantes' En:, Mena Marques, Manuela B., Maurer, Gudrun, Goya en Madrid: cartones para tapices 1775-1794, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2014, pp. 140-148 [146 f.3.18].