- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 202 x 144 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 15 Dec 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 3949)
40 (in pencil. recto. upper right-hand corner)
35 (in pencil. Reverse of second support)
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. 40, From what evil will he die?, which in turn is based on Dream 27: Witches Disguised as Commonplace Physicists?
With respect to the sketch for Dream 27, Goya has eliminated the donkey in the background, which is carrying some quevedos, as well as the female figure in the centre of the composition. He has also cast two shadows in the background, on the right side of the sketch, which will later also be used in the print.
Goya moves closer to the doctor and his patient, who in Dream no. 27 were more in the background, and in this way concentrates all the attention on these two figures who are the protagonists of the scene.
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Goya. Drawings, Etchings and LithographsGoya. DrawingsLondon1954from June 12th to July 25th 1954p. 4, cat. 18
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993p. 228, cat. 137
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Roma D.Anderson: Editeur1908p. 26, n. 40
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 85
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 199, fig. 165
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 38
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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. 40
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 181, cat. 530
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 135, cat. 98
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 41
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 89-91
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p. 228, cat. 137
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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. 227
