Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
195 x 125 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
D3953
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 the Caprice 57. The filiation.  The creative process leading up to this Caprice is one of the richest.

The first idea appears in the gouache Witches to Fly (B.59) in Notebook B, in much more concise forms, but with the hermaphroditic mask which underlines the autograph inscription La apunta p.r ermafrodita. Followed by Dream no. 11. Caricature masks which pointed to their meaning..., of a very elaborate workmanship and already reported on copper plate, although no proof has been preserved. The hermaphroditic mask between the legs of the young bride takes on an even more provocative air, which may have led Goya to remove this plate from the engraved series.

He resumes the composition in this red wash, reducing the crowd attending the scene and eliminating the monkey and all sexual allusions. The drawing was cut out on a new plate and, by means of important works executed directly on the copper, Goya reached the final stage of his plastic expression.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya. La década de Los Caprichos
    Madrid
    1992
    organized 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 1993
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Bibliography']['number
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 30, n. 57
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    pp. 28, 93
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Bibliography']['number
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    pp. 147-148, n. 57
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 56a
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 183, nº 566
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 151
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 46
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 96-97
  • HOFMANN, Werner (ed.)
    Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830
    Bibliography']['number
    HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle
    1980
    p. 100
  • WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    pp. 67-71
  • VEGA, Jesusa
    El sueño dibujado
    Actas de las I Jornadas de arte en Fuendetodos. Realidad y sueño en los viajes de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ZaragozaDiputación de Zaragoza
    1996
    pp. 41-67
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    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 edición
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 299
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