Francisco de Goya

Datos Generales
Cronología
1815 - 1819
Dimensiones
247 x 359 mm
Técnica y soporte
Aguafuerte, aguatinta y punta seca
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Ficha: realización/revisión
22 Aug 2021 / 05 Jun 2023
Inventario
-
Historia

See Femenine folly.

This is one of the four unpublished prints that the magazine L'Art published in 1877. The plate is in a private collection in Paris.

There is a print in the Lazaro Galdiano Foundation with the legend Foolish folly.

One of the four versions published in L'Art has the following inscription printed in the lower margin:  Goya inv. et sc. / Lluvia de toros / (Pluie de Taureaux) / L’Art-F.cois Liénard Imp. Paris.

Análisis artístico

This is one of the most enigmatic pictures in the Follies series. In it, four bulls suspended in the air flutter about without order or order. It is the only print in the series in which no human reference appears.

The use of bulls is very common in Goya's work, but in this case the Aragonese artist makes use of it in an unusual way. He frees the fierce animals from gravity in an infinite space where they lunge with complete ease. This is why some believe that they represent the souls of real bulls. In fact, the impressive combination of the apparent heaviness of the animals' bodies and the achieved effect of weightlessness is remarkable. Goya may have been inspired by a bullfighting fiesta in the air that took place in Madrid in 1791 with dolls of bulls and bullfighters held up by balloons.

The bodies of the animals are executed by means of simple parallel lines and a darkly modelled ink stain. Their heads are masterfully drawn.

Exposiciones
  • Goya
    Musée Jacquemart-André
    París
    1961
    consultant editor Jean-Gabriel Domergue. From December 1961 to February 1962
  • Etchings by Francosco Goya
    Johannesburgo
    Johannesburgo
    1974
  • Boston
    1974
  • 1976
  •  Grabados de Goya: colección propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional, que se conserva en su Gabinete de
    Casa de la Amistad de Moscú
    Moscow
    1979
    exhibition displayed from January 18th to 31st 1979
  • Goya y el espíritu de la Ilustración
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1988
    from October 6th to December 18th 1988. Exhibited also at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 18th to March 26th 1989; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, May 9th to July 16th 1989, Madrid curator Manuela B. Mena Marqués, scientific directors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayre
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • Francisco Goya. Sein leben im spiegel der graphik. Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux. 1746-1996
    Galerie Kornfeld
    Bern
    1996
    from November 21st 1996 to January 1997
  • Goya. 250 Aniversario
    Museo Nacional del Prado
    Madrid
    1996
    consultant editor Juan J. Luna. From March 29th to June 2nd 1996
  • Goya grabador
    Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo
    Marbella
    1996
    from March 8th to May 5th 1996
  • Zaragoza
    1996
  • London
    1997
  • 1999
  • Madrid
    1999
  • Schlaf der Vernunft. Original radierungen von Francisco de Goya
    Munich
    2000
  • Bilbao
    2012
  • Goya: Order and disorder
    Museum of Fine Arts
    Boston
    2014
  • Agen
    2019
Bibliografía
  • HARRIS, Tomás
    OxfordBruno Cassirer
    1964
    p. 407, cat. 269
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 326, cat. 1604
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Goya, toros y toreros
    MadridMinisterio de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid
    1990
    pp. 128-129, cat. 63
  • SANTIAGO, Elena M. (coordinadora)
    Catálogo de las estampas de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    MadridMinisterio de Educación y Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional
    1996
    p. 247, cat. 399
  • CARRETE, Juan, MATILLA, José Manuel, AULLÓN DE HARO, Pedro, BOZAL, Valeriano, GLENDINNING, Nigel, VEGA, Jesusa y BLAS, Javier
    MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y Calcografía Nacional
    1996
    pp. 107 y 111-112, cat. 17 y 39-42
  • MATILLA, José Manuel
    Roma Edizioni de Luca
    2000
    pp. 150-151, cat. 55
  • ILCHMAN, Frederick y STEPANEK, Stephanie L. (comisarios)
    Goya: Order & Disorder
    BostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications
    2014
    p. 317
  • WILSON BAREAU, Juliet
    Goya. In the Norton Simon Museum
    PasadenaNorton Simon Museum
    2016
    pp. 204-211
  • MOTTIN, Bruno, EFEDAQUE, Adrien and WILSON-BAREU, Juliet
    AgenSnoeck
    2019
    pp. 124-125
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