- Cronología
- 1786 - 1787
- Ubicación
- Private collection
- Dimensiones
- 169 x 100 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- Private collection
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 26 May 2010 / 14 Jun 2023
- Inventario
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See The Greasy Pole. After belonging to the Duke of Montellano, this work entered a private collection.
This painting cost the Duke and Duchess of Osuna 2,500 reales.
For the analysis of the whole series, see The Greasy Pole.
The description for this work read: "3. ...some gypsies amusing themselves, pushing a gypsy girl on a swing with two more sitting watching and playing the guitar, with its corresponding landscape". The landscape that Goya mentions would have been in the vicinity of the Duke and Duchess' property of "El Capricho". Here, a beautiful young woman sits on an improvised swing, the ropes of which are tied to a pair of trees. Nothing seems to indicate that these figures are gypsies, and it has even been suggested that the young woman on the swing could be a portrait of the Duchess of Osuna herself. It was common for people from the upper classes to dress up in the popular clothing of majos and majas, and this is most probably what the artist is representing here. It is an example of the fun and games that the guests of the Osunas would have enjoyed when visiting the country house of Goya's noble patrons.
The painter already used the theme of the swing as a countryside amusement in the tapestry cartoon he painted in 1779 for the antechamber to the bedroom of the Prince and Princess of Asturias in the palace of El Pardo. Returning to the theme here, he pays particular attention to the surrounding landscape, which dominates the painting, reducing the figures down to a smaller scale.
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Exposición y venta de los cuadros, esculturas, grabados y otros objetos artísticos de la Casa DucaPalacio de la Industria y de las ArtesMadrid18961896cat. 73
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Goya 1900Ministerio de Instrucción Pública and Bellas ArtesMadrid1900consultant editors Aureliano de Beruete, Alejandro Ferrant, Marqués de Pidal and Ricardo Velázquez. May 1900cat. 29
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Spanish paintingsThe Royal Academy of ArtsLondon1920cat. 109
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Pinturas de GoyaMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1928consultant editor Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor. From April to May 1928cat. 51
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De Tiépolo à GoyaGalerie des Beaux-ArtsBurdeos1956consultant editor Gilberte Martin-Méry. From May 7th to July 31st 1956cat. 115
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Stora Spanska MästareNationalmuseumStockholm1959cat. 137
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Francisco de Goya. IV Centenario de la capitalidadorganized by Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Dirección General de Bellas Artes at the Casón del Buen RetiroMadrid1961consultant editor Valentín de Sambriciocat. XLVII
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GoyaMusée Jacquemart-AndréParís1961consultant editor Jean-Gabriel Domergue. From December 1961 to February 1962cat. 34
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Goya and his timesThe Royal Academy of ArtsLondon1963cat. 66cat. 61
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Cuadros de la colección del duque de MontellanoMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1965
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Goya. Composiciones y figuras, t.IIMadridBlass1917pp. 62-63
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L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 volsParís1928-1950vol. I, p. 195, cat. 155
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