Francisco de Goya

Witches' swing

Clasificación
Witches' swing
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
197 x 137 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
20 Aug 2021 / 18 Apr 2023
Inventario
D3961
Inscripciones

21 / 1- (in pencil, lower left)

24 (in pencil, crossed out, lower left)

Este Lienzo en que de Goya / Tanto el Pincel sobresale, / Representando á Bayeu, / A los dos hace inmortales  (in pencil, on the reverse, in reverse, apocryphal inscription)

Watermark: [Cross, two circles with letters "A" and "F", and a bunch of grapes underneath] (lower half)

Historia

The 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 (ca. 1880). In 1886 it was acquired from Mariano Carderera by the General Direction of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.

Análisis artístico

This is a preparatory drawing for a Capriche of Witchcraft that was never printed.  In the center of the composition, a grotesque nude figure who sould be a sorcerer sits happily on a swing made up of samll children, also naked, linked together like circus acrobats. Behind him, an enigmatic, faceless figure in a cloak and hood, a kind of ghost, is shown ready to push the strange, gloomy swing. 

Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    pp. il. CLXXXIII
  • MAYER, August L.
    BarcelonaLabor
    1925
    p. 231, n. 104
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 215
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 187, cat. 640
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 180, cat. 143
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de Zaragoza, Aragón y Rioja
    1980-1982
    p. 130
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