Sacrifice of interest...they are all richer and richer, and the poor woman doesn't know which one to choose (15th dream).

Datos Generales

Cronología: Ca. 1796 - 1797
Ubicación: The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones: 238 x 168 mm
Técnica y soporte

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Documented work
Titular: El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión: 25 Nov 2010 / 22 Jun 2023
Inventario: (D. 4195)

Inscripciones

15 [cut] (in pencil; recto, upper middle)

6 (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner)

[Son?] Señoritos a cual mas rico, y la pobre no sabe a cual escoger (in pencil; recto, lower centre)

El Sacrificio de Ynteres [on the inscription: Son Señoritos a cual mas rico; y la pobre / no sabe a cual escoger] (in ink; recto, lower centre)

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

Historia

On the gestation, history and aims of the series known as Dreams, a set of preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see Dream 1: Universal Language.

Line of provenance of the present drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.

Análisis artístico

Preparatory drawing for Caprice 14, What a Sacrifice! in which a marriage of convenience is depicted and criticised. The print faithfully reproduces the preparatory drawing, although with some changes in the details of the background and the faces.

The drawing shows the imprint of the foil print left by the pressure of the press during the intaglio process on the copper plate measuring 201 x 150 mm, as well as vertical stippling measuring 26 mm.

Exposiciones

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

p. 37, cat. 22
Goya: images of women

National Gallery of Art

Washington

2002
Madrid

2019

cat. 227

Bibliografía

D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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1908

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p. 75
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1953

p. 191, fig. 113
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1954

n. 24
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p. 336
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Sacrifice of interest...they are all richer and richer, and the poor woman doesn't know which one to choose (15th dream).

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