Francisco Goya [Children with Hunting Dogs] 1786

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◧ Artist: Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828) 
◧ Country: Spain
◧ Title: [Children with Hunting Dogs]       
◧ Medium: Oil on canvas 
◧ Painting Size: 112 × 145 cm 

◧ Museum: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
◧ County of Stamp Issue: Spain
◧ Date of Issue: May 31, 1996
◧ Face Value: 60 Spanish Peseta
◧ Issued to commemorate 250th anniversary of Goya's birth



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Two boys lead two large bulldogs on their leashes, each equipped with muzzles. On the collar of one of them there is an incomplete inscription, "DEL S or R", perhaps corresponding to "I am from the Royal Service." (from Description at Prado Museum)

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