- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
- Dimensiones
- 200 x 143 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 09 Nov 2010 / 23 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (1972.118.295).
Throughout the creative process of The Caprices, which had as their first germ some drawings from Notebook A and Notebook B and reached a greater definition of ideas in the series Dreams, Goya also produced numerous loose drawings. On Goya's death these drawings passed successively to his son Javier (+1854) and his grandson Mariano. They were acquired from him around 1861 by the collector and scholar Valentín Carderera. On his death in 1880 they were inherited by his nephew Mariano Carderera, from whom the Prado Museum bought them by virtue of a Royal Order of 12 November 1886. With the exception of this drawing with the self-portrait of Goya, corresponding to the cover of The Caprices or Caprice 1, which Valentín Carderera donated to Romualdo Nogués y Milagro (+1899); by inheritance it passed to Manuel Nogués; subsequently to C. de Hauke and to Walter C. Baker (New York) who in 1971 donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In the preparatory drawing Goya made for the first engraving in his series The Caprices, he portrays himself with a long bust. The painter wears a top hat, a buttoned jacket and a grim expression on his face, as in the engraving. The only difference between the sketch and the print is that in the sketch the painter is depicted up to his elbow, while in the engraving he is depicted up to the start of his arm. On the paper he marked in sanguine the definitive dimensions that were later transferred to the print.
On the verso of the folio there are several sketches of Goya's face
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Goya: Drawings and PrintsThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York1955from May 4th to 30th 1955cat. 191
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The changing image: prints by Francisco de GoyaMuseum of Fine Arts1974From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975p. 62, cat. 34
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Goya y el espíritu de la IlustraciónMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1988from October 6th to December 18th 1988. Exhibited also at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 18th to March 26th 1989; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, May 9th to July 16th 1989, Madrid curator Manuela B. Mena Marqués, scientific directors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayrepp. 84-86, cat. 38
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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. 1
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Madrid2019cat. 182
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 69
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 187, fig. 85
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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. 3
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Los Caprichos by Francisco GoyaNew YorkDover Publications1969p. 3
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 176, cat. 452
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Paintings, drawings and printsLondonFolio Society1971
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Goya : 67 DrawingsNew YorkThe Metropolitan Museum of Art1974p. 103, cat. 66
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 103, cat. 66
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 29
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p.3, Cat. 1
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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. 59
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019pp. 274-275
