Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
208 x 148 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
20 Aug 2021 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario
D4365
Inscripciones

64 (in pencil, lower left-hand corner) 6 (below in pencil)

3 (in pencil, upper right corner)

38 (in pencil, lower left corner)

36 (in pencil, bugalla ink, lower right corner)

Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (lower 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 forCaprice 64. Bon Voyage. This composition is the first in the series devoted to flying witches and wizards (from Caprices 64 to 68), and of all of them, this is the one whose appearance has changed the most in the final etching with respect to the drawing.

In the drawing, the characters seem to be depicted during the daytime; on the contrary, the print becomes one of the darkest in the series, a true night scene, punctuated only by some lights and shadows that make the monstrous flight even darker.

The title of this picture was used by Victor Hugo as an epigraph for a poem in Feuilles d'Automne dedicated to Sainte-Beuve and Louis Boulanger, whose illustrations for the poems Fantômes (1828) of the Orientales are directly inspired by several of these Caprices.

Exposiciones
  • Francisco de Goya. El proceso creativo de los Caprichos
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1999
  • Madrid
    2007
Bibliografía
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 95
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 206, fig. 217
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 62
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 183, nº 580
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    pp. 155, 182
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 49
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 327
  • VEIGA, Margarita
    LisboaFundación Centro Cultural de Belém
    2001
    pp. 130-133
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