- Cronología
- Ca. 1797 - 1798
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 200 x 144 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 13 Sep 2022 / 27 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4367
6 (in pencil, upper left-hand corner)
55 (in pencil, lower left corner)
Watermark: [Shield with helmet, bird inside, and underneath "D.N J.PH GISBERT / 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 78. Clear away, they wake up. Criticism of the clergy is one of the major themes of the Caprices series, because Goya depicts them, most of the time, as goblins and gnomes. In this way all the darts of satire directed against them are deflected as attacks on the marginalised.
Certain changes can be seen between the sketch and the print. According to Matilla, the details of the costumes and the features of the characters that identify them as religious have been intensifies in the print. The lighting effects have also changed, accentuating the contrasts and the nocturnal atmosphere in the engraving.
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Francisco de Goya. El proceso creativo de los CaprichosMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1999
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 102
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 211, fig. 247
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 80
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 185, nº 610 y 645
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975pp. 165, 183
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 52
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El mundo de Goya en sus dibujosMadridUrbión1979pp. 113-115
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 385
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LisboaFundación Centro Cultural de Belém2001pp. 100-103
