Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) — Francisco Goya (1787–88)
8″ x 10″ (Vertical)
$39.00
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Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) — Francisco Goya (1787–88)
$39.00
The magpie in the boy's grip holds a calling card in its beak inscribed with Goya's signature, while the cats behind eye the bird hungrily -- an image scholars read as an allegory of fragile innocence, since the child himself died at age eight.
Francisco Goya, 1787–88 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Honest scale — sizes listed in inches — the original is 127 × 101.6 cm.
- Source recorded — public-domain master scan, printed on matte stretched canvas, 0.75″ deep. Made to order.