Master witch giving lessons to her disciple of the first flight (5th dream)

Datos Generales

Cronología: Ca. 1796 - 1797
Ubicación: The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones: 236 x 171 mm
Técnica y soporte

Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya: Documented work
Titular: El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión: 14 Sep 2022 / 23 Jun 2023
Inventario: D4206

Inscripciones

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

Sueño. / Bruja maestra dando lecciones a su discipula del primer buelo. (in ink; recto, lower centre)

Watermark: H C WEND / & / ZOONEN

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 the etching Caprice 66, There goes that. The scene depicts a witch riding a mischievous devil.

The drawing shows an imprint of the imprint of the sheet, left by the pressure of the press during the intaglio process on the copper plate measuring 210 x 165 mm, as well as vertical stipples measuring 26-27 mm.

Exposiciones

Goya: Prophet der Moderne

Alte Nationalgalerie

Berlin

2005

from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marqués

cat. 62

Bibliografía

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1953

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1979

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Master witch giving lessons to her disciple of the first flight (5th dream)

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