Francisco de Goya

Fire flags (preparatory drawing)

Clasificación
Fire flags (preparatory drawing)
Datos Generales
Cronología
1815
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
188 x 282 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
03 Oct 2021 / 22 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D4316)
Otros títulos:


Inscripciones

4 (in pencil, lower left corner)

Historia

 See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.

This preparatory drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861) and Mariano Carderera (1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera, along with many other drawings by Goya, including almost all the preparatory studies for the Bullfight, by the Directorate General of Public Instruction, and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.

Análisis artístico

See How the ancient Spaniards hunted bulls on horseback in the countryside.

Preparatory drawing for the print Fire flags. This is a colourful composition depicting the chaos in the bullring. It reflects the moment when the bull, who is tame, has the banderillas attached to him lit up in order to whip him up and get him into the game. This was not something that was done very often, but it seems to have been very popular with the public, who liked it very much.

Here Goya groups different characters together, which he later modified and lightened in the engraving so that the main characters would stand out. However, the most important part of the drawing will remain in the print: the bull with its back to the viewer and the banderillero who calls the bull's attention so that it will come to him and he can stick another pair of banderillas. In the background of the drawing we see the two picadors who also appear in the engraving, who, as was customary, have remained in the bullring after the suerte de varas. In the background we can make out the barrier and the spectators in the bullring, which are barely sketched.

Exposiciones
  • Madrid
    2005
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    pp. il. CXXXII
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    1946
    pp. 185-206
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    nº 182
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 279, nº 1213.
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Barcelona
    1974
    pp. 6, 8, 17
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    pp. 396-397, nº 273
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2001
    pp. 93-95
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