The image represents one of the most outstanding tapestry cartoons from the artistic career of the painter Francisco de Goya. The main motif is an elegant young woman being protected from the sun by a majo with an umbrella or parasol. It may have been modelled on the work Vertumnus and Pomona by the French painter Jean Ranc, now in the Musée de Fabre (Montpellier), where Goya transformed the mythological subject into a scene from modern life. The bottom-up perspective view and its format indicate that it was intended to decorate a window shutter. The resulting tapestry hung in the dining room of the Princes of Asturias (the future Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma)
Collection: Images
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/el-quitasol/a230a80f-a899-4535-9e90-ad883bd096c5
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (104 x 152 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: 1777
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P000773
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: A playful scene of two majos represented by Goya
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