- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 200 x 141 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 13 Aug 2014 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4216)
33 (in pencil. recto. recto. lower left corner)
20 (in pencil. recto. recto. lower left corner)
Brabo (in pen. Obverse. Lower left corner)
Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (upper half)].
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.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice nº 38, Bravissimo!
The composition is very similar to that of the print in which a monkey plays the guitar upside down, on the side where the strings are not. In front of him, a donkey enjoys the recital, while behind him two characters, barely sketched, laugh and applaud the spectacle they are watching.
Goya worked superficially and quickly on this sketch and constructed the figures with just a few strokes that were enough to outline the composition and to establish the characteristics of the figures in the scene, all of which were later transferred to copper.
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El arte de GoyaMuseo de Arte Occidental de TokioTokyo1971from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.cat. 71
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 84
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 198, fig. 160
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 34
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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. 38
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 180, cat. 525
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 133, cat. 96
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 40
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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. 217
