- Cronología
- 1786 - 1787
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 277 x 115 cm
- Técnica y soporte
- Oil on canvas
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 14 Dec 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (P00797)
See The Flower Girls.
The tapestry of this work would have hung on the east wall of the room, forming a pair with The Injured Mason.
A woman and her two children stand at a fountain, filling their pitchers with water. Behind them, a bare tree indicates that it is the cold season, and in the background we see a building that appears to be a granary.
The feeling of winter, which this piece shares with other tapestries hanging in this room, is heightened by the use of a cold colour palette, by the presence of bare, stripped landscapes and by the figure of the boy who is shivering and trying to warm his frozen hands inside his jacket.
It was Cruzada Villaamil who gave the work its title of Los pobres, The Poor, although there is nothing in the picture itself to suggest that the characters are poor; quite the opposite, the woman wears shoes with buckles, thus confirming that this is a relatively well-off family.
Nordström points out the similarities between this painting and the group of figures that appears on the left-hand side of the work by Antonio Viladomat Alegoría del invierno (Winter Allegory) (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona), a piece that Goya almost certainly would have seen.
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Goya. 250 AniversarioMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1996consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996cat. 41
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Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794Museo Nacional del PradoMadrid2014p. 213
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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. 213