- Cronología
- 1786 - 1787
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 276 x 641 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 08 Dec 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (P00794)
- Otros títulos:
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Summer (El verano)
August (Agosto)
See The Flower Girls.
The tapestry of The Threshing Floor would have hung on the west wall of the room.
It was the largest painting that Goya was to paint in his lifetime, a scene composed of numerous figures each featuring an individual portrait, with its own expression. Goya painted the moment when the harvesters were resting, once again employing the pyramid composition learnt so well from Mengs. In this case his success in utilizing this shape is particularly worthy of note given the dimensions of the cartoon, which is long and narrow. In the background, the castle on the left serves as counterweight to the pile of wheat sheaves on the right hand-side, giving the scene a sense of stability and delimiting its space.
In this representation of summer, Goya distanced himself from the traditional iconography of the woman wearing a crown of wheat, and made the very original decision to instead depict country life and the moment of the harvest.
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Goya. 250 AniversarioMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1996consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996cat. 36
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L'œuvre peint de Goya. 4 volsParís1928-1950vol. I, p. 91, cat. 32
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Tapices de GoyaMadridPatrimonio Nacional1946pp. 141, 143, 249, cat. 41 y láms. 146-1
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Goya, Saturno y melancolía. Consideraciones sobre el arte de GoyaStockholmAlquimis & Wiksell1962pp. 49-55 y p. 53 (il.)
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 97, cat. 263
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BarcelonaPolígrafa1970vol. I, pp. 268, 270, cat. 217
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L’opera pittorica completa di GoyaMilanRizzoli1974p. 101, cat. 197
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. II. p. 42 y p. 76 (il.)
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Francisco de Goya, cartones y tapicescol. col. "Espasa Arte"Espasa Calpe1987pp. 138, 147, 157, 287, cat. 45C; pp. 13
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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. 214-216 y p. 215 (il.)
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Goya. 250 AniversarioMadridMuseo del Prado1996p. 165 (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. 165 (il.)
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Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2014p. 263