Hunting Party (Partida de caza)

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.