Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
1787–88 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
The sitter is the son of the Count and Countess of Altamira. Outfitted in a splendid red costume, he is shown playing with a pet magpie (which holds the painter's calling card in its beak), a cage full of finches, and three wide-eyed cats. In Christian art birds frequently symbolize the soul, and in Baroque art caged birds are symbolic of innocence. Goya may have intended this portrait as an illustration of the frail boundaries that separate the child's world from the forces of evil or as a commentary on the fleeting nature of innocence and youth.
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About this artwork
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) (1787–88) by Francisco de Goya, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Francisco de Goya
Francisco Goya (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and print maker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era.
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