Francisco de Goya

If he is guilty, let him die quickly (Si es delincuente q.e muera presto)

Clasificación
If he is guilty, let him die quickly (Si es delincuente q.e muera presto)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1810 - 1815
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
155 x 121 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sepia wash and sanguine
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
20 Jun 2012 / 07 Jun 2023
Inventario
D4327
Otros títulos:
A prisoner in profile looking left (Un prisionero de perfil hacia la izquierda)
Historia

See The Blind Guitarrist.

This work belonged to Javier Goya and then to his son, Mariano Goya. It later entered the Valentín Carderera Collection before finally reaching the Prado Museum.

Análisis artístico

There are no major differences between this drawing, which is the other way round to the finished work, and the print. In it we see the prisoner, in profile, secured to the wall by a chain around his neck and by shackles round his feet. He is dressed in ragged clothes and his head has fallen forward, hiding his face behind his hair.

Goya has described his surroundings only superficially, in less detail than in some of his other preparatory drawings, although it does seem that he already had a very clear idea of how the finished work would look even at this early stage.

Conservación

There are smudges of sanguine on the reverse, around the edge of the drawing. This tends to happen when the printmakers trace the drawing onto the copperplate.

Exposiciones
  • Los dibujos de Goya
    Museo Provincial de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1978
    exhibition organized by Museo Provincial de Zaragoza, Ministerio de Cultura and Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, exhibition guide written by Miguel Beltrán Lloris and Micaela Pérez Sáenz. October 1978
  • 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
  • Goya y el espíritu de la Ilustración
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1988
    from 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. Sayre
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • Goya en tiempos de guerra
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    2008
    consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués, from April 14th to July 13th 2008
  • Madrid
    2019
Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 337
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    cat. 991
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    cat. 165
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    p. 11
  • PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ, Alfonso E. y SAYRE, Eleanor A. (directores) and MENA, Manuela B. (comisaria)
    Goya y el espíritu de la Ilustración
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1988
    cat. 96
  • Bibliography']['number
Enlaces externos
Volver
Usamos cookies propias y de terceros para mejorar su navegación. Si continua navegando consideramos que acepta el uso de cookies.