- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 236 x 166 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 24 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4360)
5 (in pencil; recto. In the upper left-hand corner)
53 (in pencil; recto; at lower left-hand corner)
12 (in pencil; recto. In lower right corner)
Watermark: H C WEND / & / ZOONEN
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.
This preparatory drawing for the Caprice no. 12, Hunting for Teeth is on the verso of the folio, while the sketch for the Caprice no. 75, Is there no one to untie us?
The fundamental differences between this work and the print are that, in the drawing, the woman perched on the wall covers her face with her hand, while in the engraving she also uses a handkerchief. In the sketch there is a slight outline of the gallows, which is lost in the engraving to give way to a landscape with a river running through it.
The drawing is ostensibly clearer than the engraving, and it even seems that, while in the drawing the action is taking place during the day, in the engraving the events could be taking place at night.
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El arte de GoyaMuseo de Arte Occidental de TokioTokyo1971from 16th 1971 to January 23th 1972. Exhibited also at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, January 29th to March 15th 1972.cat. 61
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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. 84, Cat.50
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Madrid2019cat. 63
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 19, n. 12
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 74
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 190, fig. 108
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 19
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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. 12
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970pp. 177, cat. 475
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 112, cat. 75
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 32-33
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 76-77
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 84, Cat.50
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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. 107
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 134
