- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 202 x 141 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguina sobre trazos de lápiz negro y sobre papel
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 22 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4209)
54 (in composite pencil, in the recto, lower left-hand corner)
21 (superimposed on the previous figure, in pencil, brown ink).
9 // [On a sticker, upper margin, enclosed in a circle:]
51 (in pencil; recto)
On the origin of this and other preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see the commentary on the first of them, corresponding to Caprice number 1 (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter), and on the one corresponding to Caprice 3 (The bogeyman is Coming).
Line of provenance of this drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.
The preparatory drawing for engraving no. 9, Tantalus from the serie The Caprices, shows some differences with respect to the print. The most significant is the way in which the background of the scene is approached. In the engraving, behind the two figures in the image, we can see the surface of a pyramid in which the stone ashlars of which it is composed have been differentiated. However, in the sketch that precedes the engraving, three diagonal lines are drawn that seem to allude to the pyramid although, if it were not for the existence of the engraving, we would not be able to indicate the presence of this architectural structure. Two of these lines could have been made to conceal the cut in the paper.
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Goya. Drawings, Etchings and LithographsGoya. DrawingsLondon1954from June 12th to July 25th 1954p. 4, cat. 14
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Madrid2019cat. 67
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 9
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 72
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 190, fig. 101
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 8
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 177, cat. 468
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Goya’s Tantalo’: Genesis of a CompositionMaster DrawingsNew YorkSummer1974pp. 151-156
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 109, cat. 72
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 31
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 88-89, cat. 19
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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. 93
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 138
