Riña de gatos
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| Riña de gatos |
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| Francisco de Goya , 1786–1787 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 56 × 193 cm |
| Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid |
Riña de gatos (German: dispute among cats ) is the name of a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya , which was created between 1786 and 1787. It is located in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid .
The paintings
Francisco de Goya painted the picture as part of a sequence of seasons for the dining room of the Spanish Crown Prince in the Palacio Real El Pardo, northwest of Madrid. The painting shows a black and a spotted cat, standing opposite each other on a weathered brick wall covered with ivy, their fur on their bristles, and hissing at each other. Elements like the bright light, against which the silhouette of the cats stands out, were typical design features of Goya, which were also used in the following works. Animal representations also played a special role in the sequence of seasons for the dining room of the Palacio Real El Pardo.
The image was in bottom view , painted as for the painting, developed later tapestry as wall decoration above a door in the dining room as Supraporte should hang over the eyes of the viewer. Goya delivered as court painter to the Spanish King Charles III. regularly designs for the royal carpet manufacturer. He made a total of 62 designs for tapestries in seven series. These designs were called cardboard boxes and were made with oil on canvas. They served the carpet weavers as direct models.
background
The painting was not assigned to Goya until the 1980s; it was found unnoticed in 1983, rolled up and stowed away in the Prado's magazines. When it was acquired in 1870, it was inventoried as the work of an anonymous painter. After the rediscovery of the painting, the attribution of the work to Goya was initially doubted, but there is now consensus among art scholars that the picture was created by Goya.
The tapestry of the same name made of wool and silk, produced in the years 1786–1802 by the Real Fábrica de Tapices Madrid, can be viewed today in the Palacio Real El Pardo .
literature
- Wilfried Seipel and Peter-Klaus Schuster (eds.) Goya: Prophet der Moderne , Dumont Buchverlag Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7563-6
- Mercedes Águeda: Novedades en torno a una series de cartones de Goya. In: Boltín del Museo del Prado , 1984, Vol. 5, No. 13, ISSN 0210-8143
