Francisco de Goya

Growing up after death (dream 16)

Clasificación
Growing up after death (dream 16)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1796 - 1797
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
237 x 166 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
23 Jul 2021 / 15 May 2023
Inventario
D3917
Inscripciones

16 (in pencil; recto, top centre)

59 (bottom; recto, lower left-hand corner)

Dream / Growing up after death (in pencil; recto, lower middle)

Watermark: H C Wend / & / Zoonen.

Historia

On the gestation, history and purposes of the series called 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; Museo del Prado, 1886.

Análisis artístico

See Witches' Announcement

This drawing, belonging to the series of the Dreams, the copper mark indicates that this Dream was part of the preparatory drawings for the Caprices that were passed through the plate, although no engraved proof is known and it was not included, therefore, in the definitive edition of the same. The idea that it was intended to be engraved is corroborated by the fact that it has a perimeter listel as a frame.

It shows one of the themes that obsessed Goya throughout his career: that of gigantism or the disproportion of beings among themselves. In the center of the composition, one of these giants captures the attention with his difficulty in walking and standing upright. Dressed and hairstyle in the French fashion of the middle of the century, his face is that of a corpse. Around him, several figures hold him so that he does not fall. Surely, the use of this theme in the work of the Aragonese could be due to the influence of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726 and translated and republished several times in Spain during the eighteenth century.

The Goyaesque sketch known as Man with Skull has been interpreted as a preparatory study for the present drawing.

Exposiciones
  • Boston
    1974
  • 1975
  • Madrid
    1999
Bibliografía
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 186, cat. 627
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    Bibliography']['number
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 89, cat. 52
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    pp. 406-407
  • RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel (comisario)
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
  • Bibliography']['number
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