- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 206 x 149 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Sanguine on paper
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 20 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4218)
57 (in pencil. recto, upper right-hand corner)
4 (in pencil. Obverse, lower left corner)
Watermark: [Josep Gisbert, shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GIS.T / ALCOY" (lower 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.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice no. 46. Correction.
This sketch differs ostensibly from the print. In it, the characters have more caricatured faces and Goya had not yet thought of the flying figures or the two figures in the background on the left-hand side. In addition, the head of the central figure has a more animalistic appearance, and the one in front of him in the engraving, dressed in a coat and wig, is more deformed in the drawing and his clothing is barely distinguishable. The hands of the robed man in the foreground are faintly suggested and seem to have disappeared into the folds of his habit, as is the book he is reading in the print. His face, as well as that of the figure accompanying him, is not as deformed and aged as in the print.
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 27, n. 46
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 88
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 201, fig. 179
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 45
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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. 46
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 181, cat. 544
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 141, cat. 104
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 43
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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. 255
