- Cronología
- 1779 - 1780
- Ubicación
- Lost work
- Dimensiones
- 267 x 75 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 01 Dec 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
See The Blind Guitarist.
This cartoon was delivered to the Royal Tapestry Factory on 24 January 1780, along with ten other cartoons, completing the decoration of the antechamber to the bedroom. These eleven tapestry cartoons - almost certain to have been made between 21 July 1779, when the artist delivered A Stickball Game and The Swing, and this delivery in January 1780 - were executed very rapidly. It is very likely that Goya was aware of the planned suspension of manufacturing work at the factory and was anxious to finish his commissions and receive his wages.
This painting does not appear even in the inventory carried out by Vicente López in 1834, meaning that it disappeared in unknown circumstances before that date.
The tapestry made from this cartoon was meant to be hung on the west wall of the antechamber to the bedroom, along with that of its companion piece The Fountain, now also lost.
We can get an idea of Goya's original composition from the tapestry that was weavon following the cartoon, taking into account the modifications that the weavers sometimes made when manufacturing the tapestries.
The cartoon must have shown, as Goya described on the invoice, four men arranged on different planes: the closest two playing with a dog and putting a ball in its mouth, and the other two in conversation. The first figure passes a leg over the top of the animal, reinforcing, according to Tomlinson, the sexual symbolism given to the ball and to the dog itself, traditionally associated with lust and sensuality.
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Francisco de Goya. Los cartones para tapices y los comienzos de su carrera en la corte de Madridcol. col. "Ensayos de Arte Cátedra"MadridCátedra1987pp, 144, 146 y p. 145 (il.)
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Tapices de GoyaMadridPatrimonio Nacional1946pp. 115, 234, cat. 31 y lám. 139
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L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 volsParís1928-1950vol. I, p. 81, cat. 22
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970pp. 76, 89, cat. 134
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, p. 248, cat. 84
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974pp. 95-96, cat. 92
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. I, p. 114
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Francisco de Goya, cartones y tapicescol. col. "Espasa Arte"Espasa Calpe1987pp. 106, 108, 276, cat. 35C y p. 107 (il
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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 paredesin 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, Lunwerg1996p. 168 (il.)
