- Cronología
- Ca. 1796 - 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 242 x 167 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 24 Nov 2010 / 22 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 3918)
25 (in pencil; recto, upper centre)
Sueño de unos hombres q.e se nos comían (in pencil; recto, lower middle)
18 [superimposed on the numbering 6] (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner)
Watermark: H.C. Wend & Zoonen [Large shield with helmet and letters "H -- C / W" inside].
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.
Goya based the drawing we are concerned with here on the drawing in the Album of Madrid or Notebook B, Merry Caricature (B.63) which, in turn, served as a source of inspiration for Caprice no. 13, They Are Hot .
As in the drawing in Notebook B, Goya again focused on the excesses of the clergy. With respect to the drawing in the notebook, he eliminated from the sketch the phallic-shaped nose held on a kind of small crutch, although in this case he introduced a macabre detail, as a layman without a tonsure carries a fountain with a human head that he is going to serve to the friars. This aspect is not perceived in the other preparatory drawing or in the engraving with the same clarity as in this case.
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Los dibujos de GoyaMuseo Provincial de ZaragozaZaragoza1978exhibition 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 1978p. 25, cat. 16
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized 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 1993p. 248, cat. 149
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Goya luces y sombrasCaixaForumBarcelona2012consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012cat. 23
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Goya: Order and disorderMuseum of Fine ArtsBoston2014cat. 157
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Madrid2019cat. 48
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 13
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 74-75
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 191, fig. 110
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 21
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 13
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 177, cat. 477
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 94, cat. 57
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 80-81, cat. 15
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 248, cat. 149
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El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera ediciónMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 111
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MadridFundación bancaria “la Caixa” y Museo Nacional del Prado2012pp. 136-137
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Goya: Order & DisorderBostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications2014pp. 242-244
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 115
