Francisco de Goya

The famous Martincho putting flags at the break (preparatory drawing)

Clasificación
The famous Martincho putting flags at the break (preparatory drawing)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1814 - 1816
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
173 x 282 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
01 Oct 2021 / 22 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D4300)
Inscripciones

17 (inverted, in pencil, top right-hand corner)

17 (in pencil, lower right corner)

Historia

See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.

This preparatory 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 (1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera, along with many other drawings by Goya, including almost all the preparatory studies for the Bullfight, by the Directorate General of Public Instruction, and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.

Análisis artístico

See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.

Preparatory drawing of the print The famous Martincho putting flags at the breakIn this case, the work focuses on the protagonists of the scene, Martincho and the bull. What Goya depicts is a method of banderillas used by the bullfighters of the time, which is no longer in use today.

The bullfighter's posture will later be the same in the engraving, although here, in the drawing, the audience does not yet appear at the barrier, as we will see in the print. Likewise, in the engraving Goya replaces the hat worn by Martincho in the drawing with a simple hairnet, the typical attire of bullfighters of the period.

The drawing was pasted onto a second piece of laid paper belonging to a French army record book in Spain.

Exposiciones
  • Goya (1746-1828). Peintures-Dessins-Gravures
    Centre Cultural du Marais
    París
    1979
    consultant editors Jacqueline et Maurice Guillard
  • Madrid
    1990
  • Madrid
    2002
Bibliografía
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    1946
    pp. 177-216, espec. pp. 185 y 195-197
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 167
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    ParísLe Club Français du Livre
    1963
    p. 86
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    Barcelona
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    MadridSilex
    1980
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    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón
    1995
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    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2001
    pp. 65-66
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