The Haw Seller (La acerolera)

The tapestry weaved from this cartoon decorated the south wall of the bedroom, together with its companion piece The Soldier and the Lady.

In this composition, all eyes - both those of the majos who are flirting with her and those of the viewer - are drawn towards the figure of the maja selling haw fruits, with a mischievous posture and dressed in brighter colours to accentuate her importance within the piece. The theme of the maja selling fruit and flirting with majos had already been employed by Goya in The Picnic.

The scene's composition follows the same arrangement as that of The Soldier and the Lady, breaking up the space with the building on the left and the awning shading the characters. In this way, our attention is kept focused on the foreground.

It has been suggested that the canvas may have been cut lengthways along the left-hand side, since the resulting tapestry shows a different composition, although this could also have been the result of the alterations that the weavers of the Royal Tapestry Factory often made to simplify their work or to charge for more hours of work, or simply to adapt the tapestry in order to decorate a larger surface.