- Cronología
- 1775
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 289 x 90 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
- P00753
- Otros títulos:
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Hunter Loading his Rifle (Cazador cargando su rifl
For the history of the whole series, see Wild Boar Hunt.
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). There it underwent some major changes at the hands of the restorer Jerónimo Seisdedos. It was in temporary storage at the Ministry of Education and Science from 1933 to 1989. Today it is back at the Prado Museum once more.
The hunter is accompanied by a dog lying at his feet. Two more hunters are talking behind him, and a there is a grove of trees in the background. We do not know what the rest of the canvas looked like but the description that Goya himself made of the cartoon leads us to believe that it must have been largely as it is today, since he did not mention any additional elements. Despite this, on the tapestry the heads of two dogs sniffing the ground have been added, along with a tree behind them, which coincide in their composition with the right-hand section of another cartoon, Hunter and his Dogs, which is also a corner-piece made for the same royal dining hall. There exists a preparatory drawing for the hunter who is loading his shotgun, in which he is joined by another figure who appears in the cartoon Hunter with Dogs, which suggests that Goya made these studies from life and later included them in the two compositions.
The poor state of conservation of the painting led the restorer at the Prado Museum, Jerónimo Seisdedos, to remove the band on the right-hand side of the canvas and to extend the left-hand side using a fragment taken from another cartoon, erroneously attributed to José del Castillo but actually by Matías Téllez. The result of splicing the two cartoons together is therefore a hybrid, in which only the right-hand half is the work of Goya.
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Francisco de Goya. IV Centenario de la capitalidadorganized by Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Dirección General de Bellas Artes at the Casón del Buen RetiroMadrid1961consultant editor Valentín de Sambriciocat. 52
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GoyaMusée Jacquemart-AndréParís1961consultant editor Jean-Gabriel Domergue. From December 1961 to February 1962cat. 4
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Charles III and the EnlightenmentPalacio de VelázquezMadrid1988exhibitied also at the Palacio de Pedralbes, Barcelona, February-April, 1989, consultant editor Mª Carmen Iglesias.cat. 127
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Goya. 250 AniversarioMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1996consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996cat. 3
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Permanencia de la memoria, cartones para tapiz y dibujos de GoyaMuseo de ZaragozaZaragoza1997organized by Gobierno de Aragón, Museo Nacional del Prado and Patrimonio Nacional, consultant editor Fernando Checa Cremades. From February 14th to April 6th 1997cat. 3, sec. IV
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Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794Museo Nacional del PradoMadrid2014p. 83
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Goya: Order and disorderMuseum of Fine ArtsBoston2014cat. 83
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Zaragoza2017cat. 15
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Tapices de GoyaBibliography']['numberMadridPatrimonio Nacional1946pp. 49, 60-59, 62, 190, cat. 4 y láms. 8
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaBibliography']['numberParísOffice du livre1970pp. 74, 84, cat. 60
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Francisco de Goya, 4 vols.Bibliography']['numberZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982vol. I, pp. 76-77
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Goya. 250 AniversarioBibliography']['numberMadridMuseo del Prado1996p. 281-282, cat. 3 y p. 69 (il.)
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Goya en Madrid. Cartones para tapices 1775-1794Bibliography']['numberMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2014pp. 82-87
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Goya: Order & DisorderBibliography']['numberBostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications2014pp. 154-155
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