- Cronología
- Ca. 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 197 x 137 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Aug 2021 / 18 Apr 2023
- Inventario
- D3961
21 / 1- (in pencil, lower left)
24 (in pencil, crossed out, lower left)
Este Lienzo en que de Goya / Tanto el Pincel sobresale, / Representando á Bayeu, / A los dos hace inmortales (in pencil, on the reverse, in reverse, apocryphal inscription)
Watermark: [Cross, two circles with letters "A" and "F", and a bunch of grapes underneath] (lower half)
The drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the General Direction of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.
This is a preparatory drawing for a Capriche of Witchcraft that was never printed. In the center of the composition, a grotesque nude figure who sould be a sorcerer sits happily on a swing made up of samll children, also naked, linked together like circus acrobats. Behind him, an enigmatic, faceless figure in a cloak and hood, a kind of ghost, is shown ready to push the strange, gloomy swing.
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908pp. il. CLXXXIII
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BarcelonaLabor1925p. 231, n. 104
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 215
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ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja1980-1982p. 130
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