Francisco de Goya

Is there no one to untie us? (2)

Clasificación
Is there no one to untie us? (2)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
236 x 166 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
D4360/001
Inscripciones

75 (in pencil, lower right corner)

Watermark: H C WEND / & / ZOONEN

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

This drawing is the verso of Caprice 12. Hunting for teeth. It bears a certain resemblance to Caprice 75. Is there no one to untie us?, but even so it perhaps not a first idea for the engraving. 

The image of two people tied to a tree and apparentrly begging to be untied was merely the plastic expression of an idea that was quite common in Goya´s time. The position of the figures in the drawing . There is no one to untie us? (1) and in the final print allows for a much more harmonious composition than in the present drawing.

The monolithic effect of this couple reappears in Disorderly Folly, but exploited in a totally different context where the bizarre borders on the irrational.

Exposiciones
  • Santander
    2017
Bibliografía
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    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p.101
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
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    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 210, fig. 240
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 76
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
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    1970
    p.185, nº 475 y 604
  • GASSIER, Pierre
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    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
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    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    pp.51-52
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
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    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 103-105
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    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    pp. 107, 373
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