- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 215 x 158 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguina, aguada roja y aguada de tinta de bugalla sobre papel
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 15 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4234)
18 (pencil manuscript, recto, lower left corner)
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.
This drawing is possibly Goya's last preparatory work before executing print no. 39 of The Caprices entitled Until His Grandfather. It has its earliest antecedent in drawing 72 of Notebook B Masks of B. There are also masks of literary donkeys and later in the Dream The Literary Donkey.
Although it is the closest of the three drawings to the engraving, there are some differences with respect to it, such as the background, which in the engraving is neutral and here appears a shelf. The saddle is much more elaborate and somewhat higher in the drawing than in the engraving, and in the book the donkeys that allude to the animal's genealogical origin are still not very clearly visible. However, the shield is better defined in the sketch in which it occupies a more central position.
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Goya. Drawings, Etchings and LithographsGoya. DrawingsLondon1954from June 12th to July 25th 1954p. 4, cat. 17
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Los dibujos de GoyaMuseo Provincial de ZaragozaZaragoza1978exhibition organized by Museo Provincial de Zaragoza, Ministerio de Cultura and Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, exhibition guide written by Miguel Beltrán Lloris and Micaela Pérez Sáenz. October 1978p. 27, cat. 25
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993p. 211, cat. 126
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Goya luces y sombrasCaixaForumBarcelona2012consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012cat. 30
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 26, n. 39
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 85
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 198-199, fig. 162
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 35
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 39
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 180, cat. 527
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 134, cat. 97
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 40
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 87-88
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p.211, cat. 126
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El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera ediciónMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 223
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MadridFundación bancaria “la Caixa” y Museo Nacional del Prado2012pp. 154-155
