Dance on the banks of the Manzanares

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1776-1777

Height:

272.0 cm  (107 1/16 in.)

Width:

295.0 cm  (116 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

From the Museo del Prado website: This tapestry cartoon represents a popular scene of Majos and Majas dancing Seguidillas on the banks of Madrid´s Manzanares River. In the background, Goya painted the area around the Pontones Bridge, near la Quinta del Sordo, the land and house he bought in 1819. The resultant tapestry was intended to hang in the dining room of the Prince and Princess of Asturias (the future Carlos IV and his wife Maria Luisa de Parma) at the Monastery of El Escorial. This work was part of a decorative series of ten cartoons for tapestries on “countryside” subjects. Goya, himself, invented the specific composition of the present one. This work entered the Prado Museum Collection in 1870 by way of Madrid´s Royal Palace.

Iconclass

43C93(TWO)
more than one couple dancing (TWO)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (two guitarists appear to have instruments with 12 tuning pegs, and six courses of strings)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3303