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A childhood scene located on a terrace beside a garden. Three elegantly clothed boys play with a cat. The academic drawing in the background, along with the portfolio and brush belonging to one of the [+]
Paired with P07726, P07727 y P07729. These are sketches for cartoons for tapestries intended to adorn the King’s Antechamber known as the “Pieza de Conversación” in the Royal Palace of Madrid. [+]
Four boys play outside with their tops, which they spin and attempt to pick up without stopping their rotation. This childhood scene, captured with clear tenderness by Castillo, allowed him to allude [+]
This singular composition, which can be dated 1775, was painted at the height of the 18th century, although, in aesthetic terms, the Baroque was already in decline as it entered its final phase. Its d [+]
Paired with (P07726, P07727 y P07728). These are sketches for cartoons for tapestries intended to adorn the King’s Antechamber known as the “Pieza de Conversación” in the Royal Palace of Madrid [+]
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A street vendor displays the fans he is selling to a beautiful and delicate young woman seated on the ground. The triangular composition and the very low angle of the perspective are perfectly suited [+]
The compositional structure and depiction of details reveal the artist’s ability to devise decorative elements such as garlands, flowers and scroll-work and to combine them with figures. The motifs ar [+]
This work is a preparatory sketch for a tapestry of extraordinary dimensions -nearly eight metres in length and over three metres tall- intended for the bedchamber of the Prince and Princess of Asturi [+]
Three boys -two standing and one seated- are playing chito, a game in which metal disks known as tejos are thrown at a piece of carved wood (the chito) resting on the ground with a coin on top of it. [+]
This work is a cartoon for an over-door tapestry intended for the Prince of Asturias’s chambers at the palace in San Lorenzo del Escorial. Long classified as an anonymous painting in the Museo del Pra [+]
As in the other four cartoons with which it forms a set (P03311 to P03314, P03534), destined for the decoration of the Princess of Asturias’s dressing room at the palace of El Pardo, the artist has ch [+]
Paired with P07726, P07728 y P07729. These are sketches for cartoons for tapestries intended to adorn the King’s Antechamber known as the “Pieza de Conversación” in the Royal Palace of Madrid. [+]
This realistic depiction of a kite that has swooped down on a group of dead woodcocks and a pheasant is striking for the contrast between the bird of prey’s ferocity and the tranquil still-life with g [+]
This canvas, like P7349, is one of a group of six preparatory designs for the tapestries made for the private room of the Princess of Asturias in the Royal Palace. In each canvas a putto holds symbols [+]
Two boys in a natural setting. The one on the right is playing a violin while the other sings from sheet music. The work is one of a series of five scenes for the decoration of the Powder Room of the [+]
This was a cartoon for a tapestry intended to hang in the "chamber room" at the Prince of Asturias and future Charles IV´s quarters in the royal seat of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Mengs appraised [+]
Paired with P07727, P07728 y P07729. These are sketches for cartoons for tapestries intended to adorn the King’s Antechamber known as the “Pieza de Conversación” in the Royal Palace of Madrid. [+]
