The rollona's

Datos Generales

Cronología: Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación: The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones: 210 x 137 mm
Técnica y soporte: Sanguine on paper

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Documented work
Titular: El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión: 12 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario: (D. 3931)

Inscripciones

[operación aritmética] // Collar / Lettonli [?] / Nobil [?] // 4 // 49 (in pencil; reverse of second support)

69 (in pencil; lower left side, second support)

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

The preparatory drawing for the Caprice no. 4, The rollona's has certain differences with respect to the print. In the background there is a toy wheelbarrow instead of the cauldron of food and the chamber pot. In addition, the scene takes place in a room where the wall behind the child-adult is in shadow and the servant pulling him is in the direction of the light, whereas in the print these details have been lost and replaced by a great darkness.

Exposiciones

Los dibujos de Goya

Museo Provincial de Zaragoza

Zaragoza

1978

exhibition 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 1978

p. 25, cat. 13
Goya. La década de Los Caprichos

Madrid

1992

organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993

p. 81, cat. 48

Bibliografía

D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur

1908

p. 17, n. 3
SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier

Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico

1949

p. 70
LÓPEZ-REY, José

Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
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Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press

1953

p. 188, fig. 91
SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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MadridMuseo del Prado

1954

n. 2
CASARIEGO, Rafael

Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanos
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MadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia

1966

cat. 4
GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet

Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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ParísOffice du livre

1970

p. 176, cat. 458
GASSIER, Pierre

Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
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BarcelonaNoguer

1975

p. 106, cat. 69
LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique

Los Caprichos de Goya

col. Serie punto y línea
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BarcelonaGustavo Gili

1977

p.30
LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique

Goya, dibujos
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MadridSilex

1980

pp. 86-87, cat. 18
WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

1992

p. 81, cat. 48
BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel

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 edición
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado

1999

p. 73
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