- Cronología
- Ca. 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 210 x 148 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on laid paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Aug 2021 / 19 Apr 2023
- Inventario
- D4165
Goya (in ink, lower left-hand corner)
Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY"] (lower half)
In the early 19th century the drawing belonged to the scholar and friend of Goya's Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez (1749-1829). On his death in 1829 it passed to his widow and by the second half of the 19th century it was in the Parisian collection of Paul Lefort, who sold it at public auction held on 28-29 January 1869 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris (lot 117), acquiring it from Pedro Fernández Durán de Madrid, who bequeathed it to the Museo del Prado by testamentary disposition on 6 July 1923. Following acceptance of the donation, the drawing entered the Prado Museum by Royal Order of 31 March 1931.
See Of Everything.
This drawing, obtained by tracing the one on the front of the sheet, entitled Of Everything, shows the same main figure with the body of an ass and human arms, although in an inverted position, wearing a wig in the shape of an ass's ears and tempering his ovine facial features. In addition, Goya added a lyre at his feet, not included in the drawing on the obverse, as a possible satire on the pedants who know everything. At the same time, the bookcase in the drawing on the obverse was replaced by what appears to be an audience attending the master classes of this curious professor.
Both drawings could be related to Caprice 39. Until His Grandfather, which shows a donkey sitting in front of a table with a book between his hooves, and to earlier variants of it such as Dream 26: The Literary Donkey and Masks of B. There are also masks of literary donkeys.
This preparatory drawing for the Caprices, like the one on the front of the sheet, was not selected for engraving and included in the edition of the Caprices.
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Boston1974cat. 68v
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1975cat. 68v
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized 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 1993cat. 122
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Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalBiblioteca NacionalMadrid1996from September 19th to December 15th 1996cat. 135a
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Goya grabadorMuseo del Grabado Español ContemporáneoMarbella1996from March 8th to May 5th 1996
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 199
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 186, cat. 631
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 172, cat. 135
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MadridSilex1980pp. 114-115
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992pp. 208-209, cat. 122
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Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca NacionalMadridBiblioteca Nacional, Sociedad Estatal Goya 96 y Lunwerg1996p. 160
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2004pp. 31-49
