- Cronología
- 1815 - 1819
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 232 x 332 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 19 Aug 2021 / 01 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4349 r.
5 (in composite pencil, recto, top left)
10 (in composite pencil, recto, lower left)
Watermark: "MANUEL SERRA" (left half)
The drawing was inherited in 1828 by Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 by 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 Directorate General of Public Instruction and was assigned to the Prado Museum, where it entered on 12 November 1886.
Preparatory drawing for General folly.
Although it is difficult to find any resemblance to the print, the link comes from the confusing, heaped-up composition achieved with the gouache stains applied in instantaneous strokes. The anguished and disconcerting mass of the engraving begins in this preparatory drawing, in which the different figures that make it up must be guessed.
On the left are two female figures that are omitted from the print. One of them is shown lying on the ground as if dead and the other is leaning over him. These are replaced by the figure holding the rapier and the one facing her. On the right is the woman with the cats, but without them, although she seems to be holding a lump with her left arm, as well as the cleric who kneels before her, although very blurred and almost unrecognisable. In the background, a half-naked woman appears to be supported by other figures, and another female figure, arranged obliquely, wears a headdress. In the background, angry blotches rise up like trunks.
On the reverse of the sheet is another drawing by Goya, possibly preparatory to a nonsense that was never engraved, entitled The vain peacock.
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Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg1980cat. 151
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Los dibujos de GoyaMuseo Provincial de ZaragozaZaragoza1978exhibition organized by Museo Provincial de Zaragoza, Ministerio de Cultura and Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, exhibition guide written by Miguel Beltrán Lloris and Micaela Pérez Sáenz. October 1978cat. 125
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Madrid1999
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GoyaGalleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo BarberiniRoma2000consultant editors Lorenza Mochi Onori and Claudio Strinati. From March 18th to June 18th 2000
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París2001
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Los dibujos de Goya, 2 vols.MadridAmigos del Museo del Prado1954cat. 399
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 325, cat. 1584
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