- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 208 x 148 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Aug 2021 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4365
64 (in pencil, lower left-hand corner) 6 (below in pencil)
3 (in pencil, upper right corner)
38 (in pencil, lower left corner)
36 (in pencil, bugalla ink, lower right corner)
Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (lower 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 forCaprice 64. Bon Voyage. This composition is the first in the series devoted to flying witches and wizards (from Caprices 64 to 68), and of all of them, this is the one whose appearance has changed the most in the final etching with respect to the drawing.
In the drawing, the characters seem to be depicted during the daytime; on the contrary, the print becomes one of the darkest in the series, a true night scene, punctuated only by some lights and shadows that make the monstrous flight even darker.
The title of this picture was used by Victor Hugo as an epigraph for a poem in Feuilles d'Automne dedicated to Sainte-Beuve and Louis Boulanger, whose illustrations for the poems Fantômes (1828) of the Orientales are directly inspired by several of these Caprices.
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Francisco de Goya. El proceso creativo de los CaprichosMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1999
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Madrid2007cat. 4
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 95
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 206, fig. 217
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 62
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 183, nº 580
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975pp. 155, 182
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 49
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 327
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LisboaFundación Centro Cultural de Belém2001pp. 130-133
