C0082

Man on a donkey with landscape in the background

Ref Num.: C0082

Date: 1916-1935

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 13 x 13 cm

Signed: “N.” bottom, right

Vilafranca del Penedès, VINSEUM, Museu de les Cultures del vi de Catalunya, no. 7.612

Square tile featuring a drawing of a man with a long nose and a moustache, wearing a hat and riding a grey donkey. The animal is wearing a green saddle and its head is bowed. The man is wearing ochre and beige clothes. The houses in a small village and a bell tower can be seen in the background in the lower, right-hand corner of the composition. At the top of the tile, there are a few blue clouds and three roughly painted birds flying in the left-hand corner. Manuel Trens Ribas donation, 21/07/1972 (on the reverse side is the old label with inventory no. “331”). Image rights: VINSEUM.

Images of works from the museum’s collection, courtesy of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

Manuel Trens Ribas collection, 1972

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