Unframed Holograph on Canvas After GOYA Titled "Boys Playing Soldiers"
"Boys Playing Soldiers" (Muchachos jugando a soldados), a famous tapestry cartoon painted by Francisco Goya between 1778 and 1779. It was designed to be woven into a tapestry for the bedroom of the Princes of Asturias at the Royal Palace of El Pardo in Spain.
The artwork depicts a group of children engaged in imaginative war play, with one boy dressed as an officer holding a rifle, another playing a drum, and a third holding a banner.
The original painting is currently exhibited in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
DIMENSIONS without frame: Height 16 inch / 40,5 cm
Length 11.75 inch / 29,8 cm
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