Francisco de Goya

Two men carry a dead or fainting woman

Clasificación
Two men carry a dead or fainting woman
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1795
Ubicación
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, España, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
185 x 255 mm
Técnica y soporte
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
© Biblioteca Nacional de España
Ficha: realización/revisión
18 Aug 2021 / 25 Apr 2023
Inventario
DIB 15/8/26
Inscripciones

Provenance stamp from the Carderera Collection (ink stamped, lower centre)

Historia

The drawing passed by inheritance in 1828 to Javier Goya, the painter's son, and in 1854 to Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, the artist's grandson. It was subsequently owned by Valentín Carderera (ca. 1861). In 1867 it was acquired, along with the rest of the series and other drawings from the Carderera Collection, by the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Análisis artístico

See Five Figures of Men.

Unlike the rest of the scenes in this series based on engraved drawings by John Flaxman, which are characterised by little or no movement, this one is unusually dynamic. In it, two men wearing hats carry away an unconscious or dead woman by her legs and back. This drawing could be compared to Caprice no. 8, Taken Away, which, however, differs in that the woman cries out in an attempt to escape from her abductors.

For the drawing, Goya was inspired by Flaxman's plates 22 and 26, which illustrate the Inferno in Dante's Divine Comedy.

We can see the depiction of what appears to be a hand at the woman's waist. The most characteristic feature of this drawing is the difference in tonality between the men, executed in a very uniform dark wash, and the white body of the woman.

While Pierre Gassier raises some doubts about the authorship of this work, Enrique Lafuente Ferrari gives it as authentically by Goya and as the most Goyaesque of the series. In the Biblioteca Nacional it is considered to be an original by Goya.

Exposiciones
  • Madrid
    1922
  • Grabados y dibujos de Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1946
    catalogue Elena Páez Ríos
  • Goya. Gemälde Zeichnungen. Graphik. Tapisserien
    Kunsthalle Basel
    Basle
    1953
    from January 23th to April 12th 1953
  • Goya
    Festival Internacional de Granada, Palacio de Carlos V
    Granada
    1955
    consultant editor Enrique Lafuente Ferrari
  • Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional. Exposición de grabados y dibujos en el sesquicentenario de su muerte
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1978
    May - June 1978
Bibliografía
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 195, cat. 763
  • SYMMONS, Sarah
    LondonThe Burlington Magazine Foundation
    1971
    pp. 508-512
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    p. 516, cat. 343
  • PÁEZ RÍOS, Elena
    MadridMinisterio de Cultura
    1978
    p. 48, cat. 170
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    pp. 130-131
  • http://catalogo.bne.es
    MadridBiblioteca Nacional
    18-03-2011
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