- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 204 x 145 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 29 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4380)
31 (in pencil; recto, lower left-hand corner)
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.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice 17: Well Drawn, which, in turn, takes as its source of inspiration the drawing from the Sanlúcar Album or Notebook A Young Woman Stretching Her Stocking (A.j).
This scene is more complex than the one in Notebook A, as the basin is replaced by a brazier and the figure of the old procuress is included, who gazes absorbedly, resting her face on one of her hands. These elements clearly modify the meaning of the image, since what appears to be an intimate scene becomes a clear allusion to the practice of prostitution.
This plate had to be wetted in order to be transferred to the copper.
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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. 63
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Los dibujos de GoyaMuseo Provincial de ZaragozaZaragoza1978exhibition 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 1978p. 26, cat. 19
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 20, n. 17
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 76
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 192, fig. 118
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 10
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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. 17
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 178, cat. 486
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 115, cat. 78
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 34
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 96-97, cat. 23
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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. 131
