Francisco de Goya

Love and death (drawing 2)

Clasificación
Love and death (drawing 2)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1797 - 1798
Ubicación
The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
195 x 140 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine on paper
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Documented work
Titular
El Prado National Museum
Ficha: realización/revisión
22 Nov 2010 / 26 Jun 2023
Inventario
(D. 3932)
Inscripciones

14 (in brown ink; recto, lower left)

Historia

On the origin of this and other preparatory drawings for The Caprices, see the commentary on the first of them, corresponding to Caprice number 1 (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, painter), and on the one corresponding to Caprice 3 (The bogeyman is Coming).

Line of provenance of this drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.

Análisis artístico

The preparatory drawing for the engraving Love and Death from The Caprices shows few differences with respect to the engraving. The posture of both figures is the same, as is the way they are dressed and the expression on their faces. Goya has already clearly drawn the agonised gesture of the lover who has fought a duel and the anguished face of his beloved. In front of them, in both cases, lies the sword.

The only change in the engraving with respect to the preparatory drawing is the background, as Goya has darkened the upper part with a horizontal black stain that does not exist in the drawing, and the stone blocks on which the dying man is leaning. These are separated with a clarity in the sketch that is not evident in the print.

It should be noted that previously, in Notebook B, he had made a preparatory drawing of the same scene, Young Woman Holding Her Dying Lover (B. 35).

Exposiciones
  • The changing image: prints by Francisco de Goya
    Museum of Fine Arts
    1974
    From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975
  • Los dibujos de Goya
    Museo Provincial de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1978
    exhibition 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 1978
  • Madrid
    2019
Bibliografía
  • D'ACHIARDI, Pierre
    Roma D.Anderson: Editeur
    1908
    p. 19, n. 10
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, Francisco Javier
    Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios
    BarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico
    1949
    p. 73
  • LÓPEZ-REY, José
    Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and Caricature
    Nueva JerseyPrinceton University Press
    1953
    p. 190, fig.104
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    MadridMuseo del Prado
    1954
    n. 18
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    p. 173, cat. 403
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya: Los álbumes
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1973
    p. 128, cat. B.35 [49]
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Los Caprichos de Goya
    col. Serie punto y línea
    BarcelonaGustavo Gili
    1977
    p. 32
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    El mundo de Goya en sus dibujos
    MadridUrbión
    1979
    p. 74
  • LAFUENTE FERRARI, Enrique
    Goya, dibujos
    MadridSilex
    1980
    pp. 90-91, cat. 20
  • BLAS BENITO, Javier, MATILLA RODRÍGUEZ, José Manuel y MEDRANO, José Miguel
    El libro de los caprichos: dos siglos de interpretaciones (1799-1999). Catálogo de los dibujos, pruebas de estado, láminas de cobre y estampas de la primera edición
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    1999
    p. 96
  • MATILLA, José Manuel y MENA, Manuela B. (comisarios)
    MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado
    2019
    p. 136
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