- Cronología
- Ca. 1796 - 1797
- Ubicación
- The Prado National Museum. Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dimensiones
- 230 x 155 mm
- Técnica y soporte
- Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
- Documented work
- Titular
- El Prado National Museum
- Ficha: realización/revisión
- 17 Dec 2010 / 22 Jun 2023
- Inventario
- (D. 4162)
80 (in pen. recto, top right-hand corner)
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 Coconut is Coming).
Line of provenance of this drawing: Javier Goya; Mariano Goya, 1854; Valentín Carderera, ca. 1861; Mariano Carderera, 1880; Prado Museum, 1886.
Preparatory drawing for Caprice 43, The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters, which in turn is based on Dream 1: Universal Language. On the recto is the preparatory drawing for Caprice 6, Nobody Knows Each Other.
As in the print, Goya is shown seated and reclining on a table, in this case carved with mouldings and with nothing on top of it. His head is also tucked between his arms, although a small part of his face is slightly visible. Next to him, leaning on the seat and on a painter's suitcase, is a copper plate that seems to represent one of his earliest engravings, the equestrian portrait of Margaret of Austria.
From its head emanates a beam of lightning from which emerge faces and animal and human heads, some of them deformed, laughing and moaning. Among them all is a self-portrait of Goya, with his face almost straight on, which is arranged at an angle to another.
On the right a series of bats fly overhead, above them a dog and part of a donkey's head with its front legs, and, next to Goya, a lynx that has almost disappeared.
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The changing image: prints by Francisco de GoyaMuseum of Fine Arts1974From October to December 1974. Exhibited also at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, January to March 1975p. 98, cat. 72
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Goya. Das Zeitalter der Revolucionen. Kunst um 1800 (1980 – 1981)Hamburger KunsthalleHamburg1980cat. 2
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Goya y la Constitución de 1812Museo Municipal de MadridMadrid1982organized by Madrid Town Hall, consultant editor José Manuel Pita Andrade. From December 1982 to January 1983cat. 60
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Goya y el espíritu de la IlustraciónMuseo Nacional del PradoMadrid1988from October 6th to December 18th 1988. Exhibited also at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 18th to March 26th 1989; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York, May 9th to July 16th 1989, Madrid curator Manuela B. Mena Marqués, scientific directors Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Eleanor A. Sayrecat. 50
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Goya. La década de Los CaprichosMadrid1992organized by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando sponsored by Fundación Central Hispano, Madrid, consultant editor Nigel Glendinnig. From October 26th 1992 to January 10th 1993cat. 5
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Goya: Prophet der ModerneAlte NationalgalerieBerlin2005from July 13th to October 3th 2005. Exhibitied also at the Kunsthistorischemuseum, Vienna, October 18th 2005 to January 8th 2006, consultant editor Manuela B. Mena Marquéscat. 58
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Goya: Order and disorderMuseum of Fine ArtsBoston2014cat. 39
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Madrid2019cat. 58
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatoriosBarcelonaInstituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico1949p. 87
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Goya’s Caprichos. Beauty, Reason and CaricatureNueva JerseyPrinceton University Press1953p. 200, fig. 173
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MadridMuseo del Prado1954n. 42
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Goya, Saturno y melancolía. Consideraciones sobre el arte de GoyaStockholmAlquimis & Wiksell1962p. 116-132, fig. 60
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Goya. Los Caprichos. Colección de ochenta y cinco estampas en las que se fustigan errores y vicios humanosMadridEdiciones de Arte y Bibliofilia1966cat. 43
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Vie et ouvre de Francisco de GoyaParísOffice du livre1970p. 181, cat. 538
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Dibujos de Goya, 2 volsBarcelonaNoguer1975p. 138, cat. 101
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Los Caprichos de Goyacol. Serie punto y líneaBarcelonaGustavo Gili1977p. 42
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Goya, dibujosMadridSilex1980pp. 102-103, cat. 26
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Goya, Das Zeitalter de Revolutionen. 1789-1830HamburgPrestel-Verlag Münche und Hamburger Kunsthalle1980p. 61
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MadridAyuntamiento de Madrid1982p. 98
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MadridReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando1992p.9, Cat. 5
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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 ediciónMadridMuseo Nacional del Prado1999p. 239
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Dumont2005pp. 180-181
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Goya: Order & DisorderBostonMuseum of Fine Arts Boston Publications2014p. 100
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MadridMuseo Nacional del Prado2019p. 129