Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
203 x 143 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine on paper
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
09 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D. 4214)
Inscripciones

56 (in pencil. Obverse. Lower left corner) superimposed on 15 (Pencil manuscript).

Watermark: Josep Gisbert, [shield with helmet, bird inside, and below "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (upper 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

This preparatory drawing shows some differences with engraving no. 28, Chiton. In the sketch, the difference in age between the two female figures is not clearly visible, as the young woman is completely covered. In this way, Goya has partially revealed the young woman's face in the engraving. He has also made more evident the index finger over her mouth, which is hardly perceptible in the sketch, a gesture that reveals that the young woman is asking the old woman for her complicity.

Conservación

The paper is very yellowish, so it can be assumed that it has been exposed to light.

Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 23, n. 28
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    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 81
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
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    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 195, fig.141
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 28
  • CASARIEGO, Rafael
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    MadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia
    1966
    cat. 28
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
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    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 179 cat. 507
  • GASSIER, Pierre
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    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 124, cat. 87
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    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 37
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
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    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 94-95, nº 22
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
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