In this portrait, the sitter is the son of the count and countess of altamira. In a splendid red costume, he is shown playing with a pet magpie (which holds the painter's calling card in its beak), a cage full of finches, and three wide-eyed cats. The portrait has also been known as the "red boy" since the early twentieth century. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between 1787 and 1788. Place of creation: Spain. Dimensions: height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 101.6 cm (40 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga
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