Francisco de Goya

And they are not leaving yet!

Clasificación
And they are not leaving yet!
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
209 x 142 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine on laid paper
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
Inventario
D4222
Inscripciones

67 (in pencil. Obverse, lower left corner)

Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (upper half)].

Historia

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.

Análisis artístico

Preparatory drawing for Caprice 59. And they are not leaving yet! The drawing, executed with sanguine lines, contains only the outline of the nightmare, in which he manages to reflect the tension between the weight of the stone and the strength of the spectre trying to prevent it from crushing them. But it is the aquatint, and with it the play of light and shadow, that will truly create this "horror of the vague and the infinite" in the final print.

Matilla comments that French Romantics such as Gautier and Baudelaire were particularly interested in this composition, in which they saw an iconic representation of the beings that inhabit the world of darkness and terror. For the Enlightenment writers it was an allegory of how "reason", symbolised by the great slab, was finally going to bury all reactionary forces.

Exposiciones
  • Francisco de Goya. El proceso creativo de los Caprichos
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1999
  • Santander
    2017
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
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    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 30, n. 59
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
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    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 94
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
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    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 205, fig. 207
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
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    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 57
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
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    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 183, nº 570
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
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    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 153
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
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    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 47
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
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    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 108-109
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
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    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 307
  • VEIGA, Margarita
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    LisboaFundación Centro Cultural de Belém
    2001
    pp. 140-143
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B.
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    SantanderFundación Botín y Museo Nacional del Prado
    2017
    pp. 83, 179
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