A SPANISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY

19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANCISCO DE GOYA

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A SPANISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
19th Century, after a design by Francisco de Goya
Woven in wools and silks, depicting three children, one seated on a chair and holding a cat while a second is tieing a ribbon to the tail of the cat, set within an Arcadian landscape and within a blue, red and yellow ringed frame, inscribed to the lower right-hand corner 'F.Z.' and 'F. DE TAPICES MADRID 18.4' (?), within a composite gilt slip and a later carved oak frame, minor reweaving and the oak frame with two chipped corners
3 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. 11 in.

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Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes (d. 1828), son of a gilder, was apprenticed as a painter with Jos Luzan at the age of twelve and subsequently entered the studio of Raphael Mengs, painter to Carlos III. In 1770-71 he travelled to Italy and finally settled in Madrid in 1773. Upon his return, he completed a group of paintings that impressed Mengs to such a degree that he commissioned Goya to design a tapestry series for the Royal Tapestry Manufactory of Santa Barbara. He worked on various cartoons depicting Spanish life from 1775 to 1780, 1786 to 1788 and 1791 to 1792.

A tapestry of identical design from a series depicting children at play is illustrated in A. Calvert, The Spanish Royal Tapestries, London, 1921, plate 274.