Made in Seville, this early piece by the artist is reminiscent of the work of his master, José Domínguez Bécquer (1805​-1841​)., but the quality of its execution, with its broken brushwork, and the interest in hidden urban corners, are characteristic of this painter. The taste for the minute study of garments and clothing is typical of the Romantic period, during which Seville was one of the most interesting scenes for painters in Spain.

The piece was made a year before the artist was appointed an honorary member of the Santa Isabel de Hungría Academy of Fine Arts in Seville.

Next to the entrance of what may be an inn, with several posters pasted on the façade, one of them announcing a bullfight, an Andalusian majo is represented in a cocky pose, carrying a staff or walking stick almost as tall as him in his left hand. The way he carries himself is very similar to Théophile Gautier’s description of the majo in his A Romantic in Spain (1840).

Rather than the boots and gaiters that would correspond to rural dress, he is wearing checked trousers and buckled shoes. His long sideburns hide part of his face, and his head is covered with a calañés hat.