Francisco de Goya

Poor folly (preparatory drawing)

Clasificación
Poor folly (preparatory drawing)
Datos Generales
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
Inscripciones

18 (in composite pencil, bottom left corner)

Historia

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.

Análisis artístico

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.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
  • Madrid
    1999
  • Goya
    Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini
    Roma
    2000
    consultant editors Lorenza Mochi Onori and Claudio Strinati. From March 18th to June 18th 2000
Bibliografía
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1951
    pp. 79-80
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los dibujos de Goya, 2 vols.
    MadridAmigos del Museo del Prado
    1954
    cat. 390
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 326, cat. 1588
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    pp. 446-447, cat. 297
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Goya, dibujos
    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 208-209, cat. 79
  • MATILLA, José Manuel
    Roma Edizioni de Luca
    2000
    pp. 132-133, cat. 43
  • TOMLINSON, Janis A.
    MadridFundación Amigos del Museo del Prado
    2001
    pp. 99-100, il. 39
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