Francisco de Goya

If the sun rises, we leave

Clasificación
If the sun rises, we leave
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
205 x 144 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
D4230
Inscripciones

71 (in composite pencil. recto, upper left-hand corner)

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

Si amanece nos bamos (in pencil. recto, lower left-hand corner)

82 (in pencil. Reverse, upper left-hand corner)

Stamp of the Prado Museum, (stamped in purple ink, on verso, upper right-hand corner)

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 Caprice 71. If the sun rises, we leave.

Sitting on a bulging sack containing, presumably, the spoils of children. The Brujo Mayor gives his last orders to four of his fellows, pointing to the sky from where the signal to leave will soon come.

Above the infernal group, Goya has sketched the silhouette of a winged vampire, which in the etching will be transformed into a menacing shadow cast against a background of starry sky.

Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    pp. 99-100
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
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    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p.209, fig.232
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 70
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 184, nº 595
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
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    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 157
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    pp.50-51
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
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    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 357
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