Wait to be smeared

Datos Generales

Cronología: Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación: The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones: 200 x 136 mm
Técnica y soporte

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Documented work
Titular: El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión: 13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
Inventario: D4224

Inscripciones

17 (in pencil. recto, bottom left-hand corner)

29 (in pencil. Obverse, lower right-hand corner)

Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GIS.T / ALCOY" (lower half)].

Historia

On the origin of this and other preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see the commentary on the first of them, corresponding to Caprice number 1 (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter), and on the one corresponding to Caprice 3 (The bogeyman is Coming).

Line of provenance of this drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.

Análisis artístico

Preparatory drawing for the Caprice 67. Wait to be smeared. Goya approaches this theme by depicting the flight of the goat.

This drawing was reproduced exactly in the engraving. The illumination has not been modified, only a slight aquatint veil appears in the print, which cuts the composition diagonally to balance the other diagonal formed by the body of the goat.

Bibliografía

D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur

1908

p. 32, n. 67
SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier

Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico

1949

p. 97
LÓPEZ-REY, José

Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
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Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press

1953

p. 208, fig.223
SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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MadridMuseo del Prado

1954

n. 66
GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet

Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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ParísOffice du livre

1970

p.184, nº 586
GASSIER, Pierre

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BarcelonaNoguer

1975

p. 156
LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique

Los Caprichos de Goya

col. Serie punto y línea
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BarcelonaGustavo Gili

1977

pp.49-50
LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
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MadridSilex

1980

pp. 110-111, nº 30
BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado

1999

p. 339
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Wait to be smeared

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