- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 195 x 140 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 22 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 3932)
14 (in brown ink; recto, lower left)
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.
The preparatory drawing for the engraving Love and Death from The Caprices shows few differences with respect to the engraving. The posture of both figures is the same, as is the way they are dressed and the expression on their faces. Goya has already clearly drawn the agonised gesture of the lover who has fought a duel and the anguished face of his beloved. In front of them, in both cases, lies the sword.
The only change in the engraving with respect to the preparatory drawing is the background, as Goya has darkened the upper part with a horizontal black stain that does not exist in the drawing, and the stone blocks on which the dying man is leaning. These are separated with a clarity in the sketch that is not evident in the print.
It should be noted that previously, in Notebook B, he had made a preparatory drawing of the same scene, Young Woman Holding Her Dying Lover (B. 35).
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The changing image: prints by Francisco de GoyaMuseum of Fine Arts1974From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975pp. 70-72, cat. 44
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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. 25, cat. 15
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Madrid2019cat. 65
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 10
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 73
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 190, fig.104
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 18
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 173, cat. 403
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Dibujos de Goya: Los álbumesBarcelonaNoguer1973p. 128, cat. B.35 [49]
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 32
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979p. 74
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 90-91, cat. 20
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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. 96
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 136
