The Parasol

The Parasol (El Quitasol) is one of Francisco Goya’s charming early tapestry cartoons, designed for the royal palace of El Pardo. A young woman in fashionable dress sits while a gallant suitor shields her from the sun, their playful exchange framed by a luminous, freshly painted landscape. Its bright palette and lively genre subject mark a lighter moment before Goya’s later, darker masterworks.