Francisco de Goya

Infante Don Ferdinand (El infante Don Fernando)

Clasificación
Infante Don Ferdinand (El infante Don Fernando)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1778 - 1779
Ubicación
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Dimensiones
272 x 150 mm
Técnica y soporte
Sanguine
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Undisputed work
Titular
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Ficha: realización/revisión
11 Nov 2010 / 31 May 2023
Inventario
(38538)
Otros títulos:
An infante of Spain
Inscripciones

Velazquez (lower left-hand corner). Goya (lower right-hand corner). Both handwritten in ink.

Historia

See Philip III.

Análisis artístico

This preparatory drawing for Goya's engraving of The Cardinal-Infante Don Ferdinand of Austria allows us to appreciate some of the modifications that Goya made for his copy of Velázquez's painting. The most significant is the size of the dog, which is noticeably smaller here than in the original painting. It is possible that Goya sought to take the viewer's attention away from the animal and to focus it even more on the figure of Philip IV's brother. In addition, the details on the left-hand sleeve of the figure are depicted only fleetingly.

Compared with this preparatory study, the etching reveals a gradual darkening of the image, meaning that some elements, such as the folds in the clothing and the brightness of the sky, are lost.

Exposiciones
  • Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)
    Hamburger Kunsthalle
    Hamburg
    1980
  • Goya und Velazquez: das königliche Portrait,
    Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut
    Frankfurt
    1991
  • Ydioma universal: Goya en la Biblioteca Nacional
    Biblioteca Nacional
    Madrid
    1996
    from September 19th to December 15th 1996
Bibliografía
  • CRISPOLTI, Enrico
    Alcuni stati inediti delle copie di Velázquez incise da Goya
    Emporium
    1958
    p. 250, fig. 2
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    cat. 97
  • GASSIER, Pierre
    Dibujos de Goya, 2 vols
    BarcelonaNoguer
    1975
    cat. 27
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