Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1784–1792), painted by Francisco de Goya in 1787–88, is one of the most beloved child portraits in Western art — and one of the most quietly unsettling. The young son of the Count and Countess of Altamira stands in a scarlet costume, holding a magpie on a string amid three watchful cats and a caged finch, an emblem-rich composition long read as a meditation on childhood innocence hovering at the edge of danger.
Goya paints the boy with a doll-like stillness against a bare, undefined ground, letting the animals — coiled, alert, ambiguous in intent — carry the painting's real tension. Manuel would not survive childhood, dying at age eight, a fact that has only deepened the painting's melancholy resonance for later viewers, even though Goya of course painted it with no such foreknowledge.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Francisco de Goya |
| Year | 1787–88 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Romanticism (Spanish Old Master) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 20 × 25 cm (8″ × 10″) |
| Medium | 51 × 76 cm (20″ × 30″) |
| Large | 102 × 152 cm (40″ × 60″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
