Cat fight

Cats' quarrel or Cats is a tapestry for Francisco de Goya. It was elaborated in the fifth series of cartones for tapestries of the Aragonese, destined to adorn the dining room of the Princes of Asturias in the Palace of the Pardo.

It passed to the Prado Museum in 1870, but was preserved in the basement of the gallery until 1986, when it became a permanent collection. Analysis

Two cats fight on top of a brick wall. The horizontal format of the work allows to identify it as an overhead. Goya analyzes the nature of the animal, shaping them with great realism. The painter will repeat this theme in his Caprichos and before had already realized it in the Italian Notebook.

Among the scholars there has been great controversy over the authorship of the painting, as it is not related to the series of cartoons Goya painted for the Brown. The typical features of the Goyesque painting are also not very clearly visible, perhaps because of the long time the carton was in a basement with moisture.

Despite this, the fact that it is carried out only by animals is a shocking gesture. The positions of the cats allow to determine a magnificent study of the natural. The perspective is traditional in cartones, as in The drinker. Sources

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