Hunter Loading his Shotgun (Cazador cargando su escopeta)

The hunter is accompanied by a dog lying at his feet. Two more hunters are talking behind him, and a there is a grove of trees in the background. We do not know what the rest of the canvas looked like but the description that Goya himself made of the cartoon leads us to believe that it must have been largely as it is today, since he did not mention any additional elements. Despite this, on the tapestry the heads of two dogs sniffing the ground have been added, along with a tree behind them, which coincide in their composition with the right-hand section of another cartoon, Hunter and his Dogs, which is also a corner-piece made for the same royal dining hall. There exists a preparatory drawing for the hunter who is loading his shotgun, in which he is joined by another figure who appears in the cartoon Hunter with Dogs, which suggests that Goya made these studies from life and later included them in the two compositions.