Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
1778 - 1780
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
259 x 100 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
22 Nov 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
Inventario
(P00781)
Historia

See The Fair at Madrid.

Análisis artístico

The tapestry weaved from this cartoon decorated the south wall of the bedroom, together with its companion piece The Haw Seller.

The centre of the composition is filled by an elegant petimetra followed by her entourage. She is wearing a beautiful white shawl that falls down around her shoulders and a striking yellow bodice. Holding her by the hand is an elegant soldier, and two additional characters look down at them from the other side of a garden wall.

This same compositional arrangement is used by Goya in The Haw Seller. Both tapestry cartoons suggest the contrast between two quite distinct social positions, just as is also represented in the painting of The Pottery Vendor.

This work stands out for its use of highlights, despite the fact that the painting as a whole has darked over the years. Tomlinson has commented upon the evident availability of the woman in this cartoon, as in The Haw Seller.

It is possible that the cartoon was cut down on the left-hand side. Another figure, who can barely be made out here in the painting, appears in full in the resulting tapestries. This hypothesis makes sense, since the woman is directing her gaze up towards where another figure can be partially seen. However, the dimensions recorded in the different inventories that have been preserved, including those provided by Goya, do not vary significantly.

Conservación

The reddish preparation that Goya applied, sometimes covered with a thin glaze, has caused the work to darken over the years. Its colours now appear flat and lack the tonal range that they would have had originally.

Exposiciones
  • Les chefs-d’œuvre du Musée du Prado
    Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
    Geneva
    1939
    consultant editors Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Pedro Muguruza Otaño. From June to September 1939
  • Goya. 250 Aniversario
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1996
    consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996
Bibliografía
  • DESPARMET FITZ - GERALD, Xavier
    L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 vols
    París
    1928-1950
    vol. I, p. 73, cat. 14
  • SAMBRICIO, Valentín de
    Tapices de Goya
    MadridPatrimonio Nacional
    1946
    pp. 111, 223, cat. 23 y láms. 104-105
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 76, 88, cat. 126
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 247, cat. 77
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 95, cat. 83
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 98 y p. 156 (il.)
  • BOZAL, Valeriano
    Imagen de Goya
    MadridLumen
    1983
    pp. 71-72
  • ARNAIZ, José Manuel
    Francisco de Goya, cartones y tapices
    col. col. "Espasa Arte"
    Espasa Calpe
    1987
    pp. 93, 97-98, 266, cat. 27C y p. 98 (il
  • TOMLINSON, Janis A.
    Francisco de Goya. Los cartones para tapices y los comienzos de su carrera en la corte de Madrid
    col. col. "Ensayos de Arte Cátedra"
    MadridCátedra
    1987
    pp. 109-118 y p. 111 (il.)
  • LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)
    Goya. 250 Aniversario
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1996
    pp. 301-302, cat. 20 y p. 94 (il.)
  • SANCHO, José Luis
    Salas del Palacio Real de El Pardo para las que se tejieron tapices sobre cartones de Francisco de Goya: identificación de las habitaciones y ajuste de las obras de Goya en los alzados de las paredes
    in HERRERO CARRETERO, Concha (curator, Tapices y cartones de Goya (catalogue of the exhibition organizated at the Palacio Real de Madrid, from may to june 1996)
    MadridPatrimonio Nacional, Goya 96, Lunwerg
    1996
    p. 171 (il.)
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