Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
1775
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
290 x 226 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil on canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
05 Nov 2009 / 14 Jun 2023
Inventario
(P02857)
Otros títulos:
Quail Hunt (La caza de la codorniz)
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Historia

For the history of the whole series, see Wild Boar Hunt.

In addition to the different attributions made in relation to this series of cartoons and the documentation of Goya's authorship made by Sambricio, the work before us was also attributed to Zacarías González Velázquez by Vicente López in the inventory that he carried out in 1834 for Ferdinand VII's will.

Around 1856 or 1857 this piece was moved from the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara to the Royal Palace in Madrid, and from there it became part of the collection of the Prado Museum in 1870 (still with the attribution to Ramón Bayeu). Later it was put into temporary storage at the Treasury Building (Ministerio of Hacienda) until 1983 and in the Municipal Museum of Art in Santander from 1989 to 1990, the year in which it returned to the Prado.

Análisis artístico

The scene brings together two different types of hunting: on foot with pointer and on horseback. Although the figures are arranged around the canvas in a somewhat unnatural manner, Sambricio considers this cartoon to be the best in the series since it shows Goya's way of painting more clearly, especially in the landscape in the background and in the use and contrast of yellow, blue and red in the hunters' clothes. However, the teachings of Francisco Bayeu, under whose supervision Goya made the cartoons, still dominate. As such, the frontal compositions, the decorativeness and the depiction of the figures as types rather than as individuals are the most clearly repeated characteristics of this series of cartoons.

There exist two preparatory drawings on the same blue paper support: on the front, the hunter who is taking aim at the quail, and, on the reverse, the hunter watching at his side.

Exposiciones
  • Goya and his times
    The Royal Academy of Arts
    London
    1963
    cat. 66
  • Goya joven (1746-1776) y su entorno
    Museo e Instituto Camón Aznar
    Zaragoza
    1986
    consultant editorl José Rogelio Buendía. November 21st to December 20th 1986
  • Goya. 250 Aniversario
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1996
    consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996
  • Permanencia de la memoria, cartones para tapiz y dibujos de Goya
    Museo de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1997
    organized by Gobierno de Aragón, Museo Nacional del Prado and Patrimonio Nacional, consultant editor Fernando Checa Cremades. From February 14th to April 6th 1997
  • Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2014
Bibliografía
  • SAMBRICIO, Valentín de
    Tapices de Goya
    MadridPatrimonio Nacional
    1946
    pp. 50, 55, 63-66, 90, 193, cat. 6 y lám
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 44-45, 75, 85, cat. 63 y p. 44 (il.)
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 244, cat. 56
  • ANGELIS, Rita de
    L’opera pittorica completa di Goya
    MilanRizzoli
    1974
    p. 92, cat. 52
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    vol. I, p. 77 y p. 93 (il.)
  • BOZAL, Valeriano
    Imagen de Goya
    MadridLumen
    1983
    pp. 56-57
  • ARNAIZ, José Manuel
    Francisco de Goya, cartones y tapices
    col. col. "Espasa Arte"
    Espasa Calpe
    1987
    pp. 46, 56, 63, 239, cat. 6C; p. 57 (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
    p. 43
  • LUNA, Juan J. (Comisario)
    Goya. 250 Aniversario
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1996
    p. 283-285, cat. 5 y p. 71 (il.)
  • MENA MARQUÉS, Manuela B. y MAURER, Gudrun (comisarias)
    Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2014
    pp. 58-59
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