Hunter and his Dogs (Cazador con sus perros)

With his back to the viewer and a shotgun over his shoulder, a hunter grasps the leash of two dogs. A wooded landscape is seen in the background.

The finished tapestry also features another hunter, on horseback, who is only visible in the canvas to the more observant spectator, having been overpainted with bushes. We do not know who did this, nor when, although Sambricio points out that it must have been around 1830, when the second tapestry was woven, since in the first one the rider clearly appears. Arnaiz observed that it may have been Goya himself who removed the rider when he saw the imbalance of the composition.

Of all the cartoons that made up the first delivery of this series, Sambricio is of the opinion that this is the most Goya-esque because of the naturalism of the main figure, whilst other writers insist that the characteristics imposed by the director of the commission, Francisco Bayeu, carry more weight than those of Goya.

There exists a preparatory drawing for the hunter who is leading the dogs, in which he is accompanied by another figure who appears in the cartoon Hunter Loading his Shotgun, which suggests that Goya made these studies from life and later included them in the two compositions, hence the realism observed by Sambricio.