Francisco de Goya

Is your worship... well, as I say... hey! Be careful...

Clasificación
Is your worship... well, as I say... hey! Be careful...
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
208 x 144 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
Inventario
D4228
Inscripciones

8 (in pencil, in duplicate, lower left and right corners)

Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (lower half)].

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

Preparatory drawing for Caprice 76. Is your worship... well, as I say... hey! Be careful...

There are notable differences between the preparatory drawing and the engraving. Goya modified this first sketch to obtain the burlesque scene that is depicted in the etching.  Firstly, a fourth figure appears on the far left, a beggar leaning on his crutch. On the other hand, the witness to the scene, in the background, has lost his three-cornered hat, thus changing his expression. And the figure on the left is depicted in the engraving wearing a hat with large wings. All these elements contribute to give the final composition of the print a balance, a density in the distribution of the masses, which the simple preparatory drawing is far from possessing.

Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 33, n. 76
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    pp. 101-102
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
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    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    pp. 210-211, fig. 243
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 78
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 185, nº 606
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
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    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 163
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
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    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 52
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
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    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 377
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