- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 204 x 138 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 09 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4215)
29 (in pencil, recto, upper left-hand corner)
36 (in pencil, recto, lower left corner)
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.
Goya introduces no novelties in Caprice no. 29, This is what reading is all about compared to the preparatory drawing. He maintains the preponderance of the old man in the foreground, who pretends to read, and superficially draws the other two figures in the background. However, it should be pointed out that the caricatured aspect of this character's face is more marked in the engraving than in the sketch.
The painter has sketched the figures in a very superficial manner, using faint strokes and leaving large areas of the paper blank. The clothes of the old man in the foreground show few folds or shadows and will be rendered in this way when they are executed in the engraving.
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 23, n. 29
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 81
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 196, fig. 143
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 29
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 29
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 179 cat. 509
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 125, cat. 88
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 37
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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. 181
