- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 203 x 143 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 09 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4214)
56 (in pencil. Obverse. Lower left corner) superimposed on 15 (Pencil manuscript).
Watermark: Josep Gisbert, [shield with helmet, bird inside, and below "D.N J.PH GISBERT / ALCOY" (upper half)].
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 shows some differences with engraving no. 28, Chiton. In the sketch, the difference in age between the two female figures is not clearly visible, as the young woman is completely covered. In this way, Goya has partially revealed the young woman's face in the engraving. He has also made more evident the index finger over her mouth, which is hardly perceptible in the sketch, a gesture that reveals that the young woman is asking the old woman for her complicity.
The paper is very yellowish, so it can be assumed that it has been exposed to light.
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 23, n. 28
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 81
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 195, fig.141
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 28
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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. 28
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 179 cat. 507
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 124, cat. 87
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 37
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MadridSilex1980pp. 94-95, nº 22
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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. 177
