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Portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga by Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019

Portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga by Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792),1787–88


Object Details

Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

Date: 1787–88

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949

Accession Number: 49.7.41


Portraits of children accompanied by animals have a long tradition in Spanish painting. Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the young boy, the son of the Count and Countess of Altamira, is shown with a pet magpie (which holds the painter's calling card in its beak), a cage full of finches, and three wide-eyed cats. Although they add an engaging element for the viewer, Goya may have intended them as a reminder 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. Manuel died at the tender age of eight.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436545

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