- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 210 x 137 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Aguada roja, trazos de lápiz negro sobre papel
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 24 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4232)
44 (in composite pencil. Lower left corner, second support)
94 (in composite pencil. Lower part, reverse, second support)
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 Caprice They Are Warm was inspired by the image in the Madrid Notebook or Notebook B Merry Caricature (B.63). The subject matter and composition are already quite clearly outlined in the drawing entitled Dream of Men Eating Us (25th dream) and are definitively defined in the preparatory drawing we are dealing with here.
Goya has sketched the arch in the background of the scene, the figure in profile in the foreground, the table around which the clerics are gathered and the three figures in the background in a pyramidal arrangement. From the drawing in Notebook B to the final result, there is a gradual intensification of the ferocity in the faces, which become increasingly cadaverous, with sunken eyes and emaciated faces. Likewise, with respect to Dream, it is evident that the table is gradually more essential and the number of objects on it is reduced.
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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 1993p. 248, cat. 149
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Goya luces y sombrasCaixaForumBarcelona2012consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012cat. 24
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Madrid2019cat. 49
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 13
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 74
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 191, fig. 111
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 22
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 177, cat. 478
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975cat. 13
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 33
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p.248, cat. 150
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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. 113
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 116
