Francisco de Goya

Truth Rescued by Time

Clasificación
Truth Rescued by Time
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
305 x 207 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
18 Aug 2021 / 28 Apr 2023
Inventario
Inv. 4338r
Inscripciones

9 (in pencil, recto, upper left-hand corner)

83 (in pencil, brown ink, recto, upper right-hand corner)

3 (in composite pencil, recto, lower left-hand corner)

Unedited (in composite pencil, recto, lower centre)

[Stamp of the Museo del Prado] (stamp in violet ink, reverse, lower right-hand corner)

Watermark: [Large shield with helmet and letters "[H] C W" inside].

Historia

The piece is one of a series of drawings which, from their form and content, were undoubtedly made by Goya in preparation for the Caprices.

The drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the General Direction of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.

Análisis artístico

On the same sheet of paper there are two drawings. This one is on the recto or recto, while the reverse is occupied by The Truth. Sketch of a nude woman.

This drawing has been cautiously entitled Truth Rescued by Time and also Time and Truth, as it shows the figure of a nude woman clinging to the body of a winged man, also nude, carrying an hourglass. Both appear to be flying happily. Next to them fly some owls, animals very often depicted by Goya in this period of his career and directly related to The Caprices.

The identification of the male figure with Cronos has led many authors to relate this drawing to the large-format painting Truth, Time and History in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, a work by Goya of around 1812 in which the allegory of Time again appears in the same pose, with a girl who is not naked and who could be Philosophy or the incarnation of the Constitution of 1812. Above all, however, the drawing has been realted to a kind of previous, much earlier sketch (ca. 1797-1799) of that composition, also entitled Truth, Time and History (sketch)  now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, in which the young woman again appears nude and we find bats and owls flying in the night. 

Exposiciones
  • Goyas Spanien, Tiden och Historien
    Nationalmuseum
    Stockholm
    1980
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya y la Constitución de 1812
    Museo Municipal de Madrid
    Madrid
    1982
    organized by Madrid Town Hall, consultant editor José Manuel Pita Andrade. From December 1982 to January 1983
  • El cuaderno italiano (1770-1786). Los orígenes del arte
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1994
    exhibited also at Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijón, Summer 1994, consultant editors Manuela B. Mena Marqués and Jesús Urrea Fernández. From March 2nd to April 30th 1994
Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los dibujos de Goya, 2 vols.
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    MadridAmigos del Museo del Prado
    1954
    vol. II, cat. 451
  • NORDSTRÖM, Folke
    Goya, Saturno y melancolía. Consideraciones sobre el arte de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    StockholmAlquimis & Wiksell
    1962
    pp. 127-140 (il. 56)
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 164, 187, cat. 642
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 44, cat. 16
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    p. 4
  • HOFMANN, Werner (ed.)
    Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830
    Bibliography']['number
    HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle
    1980
    p. 150
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Bibliography']['number
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    p. 114
  • AGULLÓ Y COBO, Mercedes
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridAyuntamiento de Madrid
    1982
    pp. 90-91
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1993
    pp. 222-225 (il. 156)
  • MAURER, Gudrun
    Bibliography']['number
    StockholmNationalmuseum Stockholm
    2001
    pp. 54-59, cat. 6
  • FORADADA BALDELLOU, Carlos
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridFundación Lázaro Galdiano
    2010
    pp. 320-339, espec. p. 336
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