Francisco de Goya

Until his grandfather

Clasificación
Until his grandfather
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
215 x 158 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguina, aguada roja y aguada de tinta de bugalla sobre papel
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
15 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D. 4234)
Inscripciones

18 (pencil manuscript, recto, lower left corner)

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

This drawing is possibly Goya's last preparatory work before executing print no. 39 of The Caprices entitled Until His Grandfather. It has its earliest antecedent in drawing 72 of Notebook B Masks of B. There are also masks of literary donkeys and later in the Dream The Literary Donkey.

Although it is the closest of the three drawings to the engraving, there are some differences with respect to it, such as the background, which in the engraving is neutral and here appears a shelf. The saddle is much more elaborate and somewhat higher in the drawing than in the engraving, and in the book the donkeys that allude to the animal's genealogical origin are still not very clearly visible. However, the shield is better defined in the sketch in which it occupies a more central position.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Drawings, Etchings and Lithographs
    Goya. Drawings
    London
    1954
    from June 12th to July 25th 1954
  • Los dibujos de Goya
    Museo Provincial de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1978
    exhibition 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 1978
  • Goya. La década de Los Caprichos
    Madrid
    1992
    organized 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 1993
  • Goya luces y sombras
    CaixaForum
    Barcelona
    2012
    consultant editors José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Marqués. From March 16th to June 24th 2012
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 26, n. 39
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 85
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 198-199, fig. 162
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 35
  • CASARIEGO, Rafael
    Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanos
    MadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia
    1966
    cat. 39
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 180, cat. 527
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 134, cat. 97
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 40
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 87-88
  • WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
    1992
    p.211, cat. 126
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    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 edición
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 223
  • MATILLA, José Manuel and MENA, Manuela B.
    MadridFundación bancaria “la Caixa” y Museo Nacional del Prado
    2012
    pp. 154-155
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