- Cronología
- 1815 - 1819
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 241 x 338 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 21 Aug 2021 / 08 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- D4275
18 (in composite pencil, bottom left corner)
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 Poor Folly. The drawing, although clearly preparatory to the print, is still very different from it. It does present the same arrangement of light and shade, with a notable chiaroscuro effect achieved by the light entering through the access to the architectural element on the right of the composition. The rest of the sketch is a tangle of straight lines and brushstroke curves that is difficult to interpret, although the girl who rushes into the scene with her arms outstretched, but only with one head, also appears. In this case, the young woman does not address a group of old women but throws herself into the arms of a male figure, perhaps a French soldier, as he is wearing a uniform very similar to the one depicted in numerous prints of the Disasters. She is pursued by a woman, not two as in the engraving, who possibly implores her not to continue with this madness. Above her rises a misty, almost flaming sky.
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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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BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1951pp. 79-80
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Los dibujos de Goya, 2 vols.MadridAmigos del Museo del Prado1954cat. 390
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 326, cat. 1588
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